WHAT GOD LOOKS LIKE

“God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ.”

-2 Corinthians 5:19

You never know what to expect when a child opens his mouth. On one occasion, a minister visited a Sunday School Class where the four-year olds were drawing pictures about people in the Bible. “What are you drawing?” the minister asked a very pretty, prim young miss. “Oh, I’m drawing a picture of God,” she replied confidently. “Well, that’s a nice idea, “he answered kindly, “but no one knows for sure what God looks like.” “Oh, they will when I get this drawing done,” she smiled enthusiastically.

An overstatement? Yes, for a four-year-old. But not for Jesus Christ. By His birth, life on earth, death on the Cross, and resurrection from the grave, He showed mankind what God was like. He was the God-Man.

One of the names given the son of God is “Emmanuel” which means “God with us.” When Jesus was on earth, God was on earth. When Jesus healed men, God healed. When Jesus forgave sinners, God forgave sinners. In the Old Testament days, the revelation of God was never complete. When Moses asked God for credentials as to his divine mission of leading the children of Israel out of Egypt, God answered, “Tell me that I Am has sent you” –Exodus 3:14.

Now any grade-school student knows that I Am is an incomplete sentence. There is a subject, a verb, but no object.

Here is good news: when Jesus came to earth nearly 2,000 years ago, He did finish the sentence of truth so that man would understand God clearly. He did not just say, “I Am.” He said, “I Am the Door, I Am the Bread of Life.” By such figures of speech, He revealed God simply yet beautifully so that all men might understand the heart of God.

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