Colossians 1:15 – 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
That He is. You want a picture of God, then visualize Jesus.
John 14:7-11 –7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
Jesus is God in the flesh, part of the Trinity.
This takes us to the second portion of our scripture, the Firstborn over all creation.
Genesis 1:1-3 – 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
What is the light the sun? No that doesn’t work because the light above was created on the first day. We read this just a little further down the chapter.
Genesis 1:14-19 – 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
So what is the light? Or should we say who is the Light?
John 8:12- 12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
To be able to see Someone that is big enough to create the universe would be hard to do. However, God gave us His Son, which is One with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and God in the flesh.
Tomorrow we will add Colossians 1:16 into the mix.