According to the dictionary the word “junkie” does not have to have negative connotations. The second and third given meanings are “a person with an insatiable craving for something: and an enthusiastic follower: fan; devotee: a baseball junkie.” Therefore, I have come to realize I am a junkie. I am a good news junkie. I like to hear about good things that happen to people. I am also a Good News junkie. I can’t get enough of the story of Jesus. The hymn “Tell Me the Story of Jesus” is one of my favorites.
Hebrews 1:1-4 is all about Jesus. It begins talking about Him right from the start. “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.”
Jesus is the “express image of His person.” One of the reasons Jesus came was to show us what God is really like. Those “various ways” in the past were the beginning of the revelation of God. Jesus was the consummate revelation. He made us rethink all the ideas we used to have about the Father. The Father wasn’t just some super form of an Old Testament god but was the kindest, most caring, most concerned, most sacrificing and most loving God anyone could ever imagine.
Written by Roger Bothwell on February 10, 2010
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