Yahweh, our Creator and Heavenly Father, should be at the forefront of our thoughts, every single day, from the moment we wake until we rest our heads. It’s really that simple. And when we think about Him, we should be in absolute awe of His sovereignty, majesty, and perfection. Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT) tells us, ““My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”” His intellect is boundless, and His power and glory stretch beyond anything we can comprehend. There are really no words capable of capturing the fullness of how extraordinarily glorious, loving, and perfect our Heavenly Father is, and it’s astounding to realize that we’re on His mind constantly.

There’s no one like Him. Our Abba Father is the Creator of all things, the One who spoke the entire universe into existence. In His infinite grace, He’s given us the awesome privilege and responsibility to learn about Him, and to become like Him by imitating Christ. In all eternity, this is the greatest thing that any of us will ever do—to reflect His nature, pursue His purpose, and live a life worthy of His calling.

In the book of Revelation, we get a breathtaking glimpse of the throne of God. It radiates with divine glory and unimaginable beauty. None of our colors on earth can match its brilliance and vibrancy. God’s throne is more than a seat of His authority and power; it’s saturated with His holiness, light, and love. Nothing we’ve known as earth’s citizens can compare with its splendor. In Revelation 4:2-3 (NLT), John, the apostle, shares what he saw in the spirit: “And instantly I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne in heaven and someone sitting on it. The one sitting on the throne was as brilliant as gemstones—like jasper and carnelian. And the glow of an emerald circled his throne like a rainbow.” This vision reflects a perfection and purity that is beyond our reach as mere mortals. Yet the most beautiful truth is that the One who sits on that throne, radiating such majesty, loves us so deeply that He has made a way for us to be in His presence forever.

This truth, this astounding reality, is almost too wonderful to imagine. As believers in Christ, we are invited into the very presence of the Almighty, the Creator of all. The Apostle John writes in 1 John 3:1 (NLT), “See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are!” We are God’s children, His beloved, and the joy of being near Him is a gift beyond compare. He doesn’t keep His majesty hidden away from us. He wants us to know Him—truly and intimately, and He wants us to enjoy getting to know Him.

This is all possible because He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to the earth to save us. John 17:3 (NLT) says, “And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.” God, in His wisdom, love, and grace, reveals Himself to us through Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, came to make the invisible God visible. Through him, we see the Father’s heart. As Jesus told Philip in John 14:9 (NLT), “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father!” In Jesus, God’s sovereignty and love are perfectly intertwined, making it possible for us to understand the Father as our all-powerful Creator who desires not just to walk alongside us, but He’s in us!

2 Corinthians 5:19 (NLT) says, “For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.” Because of what God accomplished through the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ, we can accept the salvation that Jesus offers to every living person and become born again. When we do this, God’s Holy Spirit comes to live inside us in the very same way that he lives in Jesus Christ. This was God’s plan all along! Galatians 4:6 (NLT) tells us: “And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, ‘Abba, Father.’”

Because of His infinite mercy, He didn’t allow our sin to deter His plan. Our Loving Heavenly Father knew that Adam and Eve would disobey His Word, and He didn’t prevent them from doing so. This demonstrates His commitment to the gift of free-will that He’s given to all of us. Adam’s sin, as well as our own, did not nullify our redemption. God still saved us through Jesus Christ! 1 Peter 1:20 (NLT) tells us that God chose Christ “as your ransom long before the world began. But now in these last days, he has been revealed for your sake.” This verse reminds us that the coming of Jesus Christ was not a random event or a last-minute decision by God. Long before the world began, He planned to send His Son to restore the broken relationship between humanity and Himself. This is Good News indeed!

Through his life, teachings, miracles, death, and resurrection, Jesus reveals the heart of God to us, and he does so in a way that we could never have fully grasped without his completion of God’s redemption plan on earth. Colossians 1:15-16 (NLT) affirms: “15 Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, 16 for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see–such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.”

In the Old Testament, we can see God’s nature being revealed in part through the law, the prophets, and signs and wonders. The New Testament is different though. God’s revelation is made complete in Jesus Christ, and we must be so incredibly thankful for this. Through his life on earth, Jesus showed us what it looks like to live in perfect communion and fellowship with the Father. He revealed God’s heart when he healed the sick, fed the hungry, forgave sins, and offered grace to the brokenhearted. He teaches in John 14:6 (NLT): “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” Our Lord and Savior is the way to God, and because he came into the world, we can be saved, made righteous, and filled with God’s Holy Spirit!

As we reflect on the birth and life of Jesus, as well as God’s eternal plan, we must remember the profound truth Jesus spoke in Matthew 11:27 (NKJV): “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” In this powerful declaration, Jesus affirms that he is the exclusive revelation of God to humanity. Through our blessed Savior, we have the incredible privilege to know the Father intimately, for it is only through the Son that we can truly know God and understand His heart and His Will. In his birth, life, sacrifice, and resurrection, Jesus Christ is the perfect expression of God’s nature, and God is fully revealed. Because of this, we are invited to know and experience the very love and grace of the Creator, as we live powerfully through Him every moment of our lives. ■

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

“Jesus Christ Revealed Our Heavenly Father”, written for Springfield Fellowship © 2024. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.