"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." Colossians 1:15
Here is the Good News.
When reading the Old Testament, especially the time period from the Exodus before the era of Judges, you can get an image of a community with a lot of angst. There are many commandments coming from the God who liberated all of Israel from slavery in Egypt. Not only that, but those commandments are only coming from Moses, the only person allowed to see God, let alone interact with God.
When Jesus came into the world, though, we now have a clear image of Almighty God. We can see Jesus in the flesh. We can hear Jesus in a language we can understand. We see another human to whom we can relate, teaching us the Way. It is a good thing, for we are all invited to participate in the divine. Jesus gave us the Eucharist, and now we have a way to commune with God.
When I thought about this verse, I thought about an old hymn, where one of the verses says, "I see Thee face to face and live!" And that's what we have now! We see Jesus face to face and live! We have so many things to be thankful for, and the chief of them is that we can come so much closer to God than ever before. Love, which was once something concealed and confusing, is now something we can understand with many examples from Jesus Christ. We have all of his teachings to guide us.
When we read the bible, when we pray, when we take communion, we are seeing God face to face, and we, indeed, are living.
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