Heb.1:3 – Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person…
Heb.1:3 – The Son is the dazzling radiance of God’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature—His mirror image!
This is exactly what Jesus told His disciples after the Last Supper and the foot-washing. He told them, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” After this He went on to say “if you have seen Me you have seen the Father”. John said that Jesus was the declaration of the Father. It is impossible for finite, fallen man to glimpse the eternal nature and glory of the Father. God dwelling in man gives us a glimpse of God.
One of the miracles Jesus often performed was opening blind eyes. These miracles were a picture of what happens to all of us when we come in contact with Jesus. He opens our spiritual eyes and we see Jesus in those first rays of light. In Christ we see the glory of God, He is the radiance of the Father’s glory. Here is how the Christ Centered Expository Commentary describes this beautiful truth.
“The idea of “radiance” goes back to the notion of the shekinah glory in the Old Testament. The shekinah was a shining, visible glory that demonstrated the majesty of God, as in the exodus and at the dedication of Solomon’s temple. Looking at Christ is the way we see most fully the glory of God. More than that, Christ is the exact expression of the Father’s nature. Christ shares the divine nature with the Father as the Second Person of the Trinity. This is where the divine Son is different from a human son. No human son is the exact representation of his father. There is a close relation, but not an exact representation. Christ, however, is an “exact representation.” He and God are of the same divine essence.”
Blind Bartimaeus was a man healed by the Lord just before He was crucified. The first object Bartimaeus saw was the face of Christ. This is exactly what happens to us. We grope through life totally blind to what really matters. One touch from the Lord and we see His face. Once we see Him we begin to see the glory of God in all things. We are His handiwork or work of art; this all begins when we first see His face.
