Too many people want to believe God – if only they could see Him! But that’s not the way it works. Everything we do must be done in faith or it’s not pleasing to God and He can’t honor it. So, does that mean we can’t know what God looks like? Absolutely not! We actually can know what God looks like and I’m going to show you how. We must always go to God’s Word to find the truth. So here we go.
John 14:9 (KJV) 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Colossians 1:15 (KJV) 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Hebrews 1:3 (KJV) 3 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 on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
John 14:7 (KJV) 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Notice that if we know what Jesus looks like we can know what the Father looks like. If we’ve seen Jesus, we’ve seen the Father. So we know that God the Father looks like a man! How ‘bout that! Of course, He’s clothed in His glory so we really can’t see Him the way He truly is until we get to Heaven because our mortal bodies would disintegrate from the magnificence of His glory. Even Moses had to be hidden in the cleft of the rock so that He wouldn’t see God’s face and die. That’s very clear. But is that all there is to Jesus—what He looks like?
Exodus 33:22 (KJV) 22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
It’s like saying that all there is to you is your appearance. But not so. You have a personality, character, a way about you, what you do and believe, etc. This all makes up who you are. And so it is with the Lord Jesus. Let’s look at some more scriptures.
Acts 10:38 (KJV) 38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
At any one point in time, you could probably see Jesus doing someone some good. That’s what He did and not only that, He sent terror into the devil’s ranks, casting out demons and setting people free from satanic bondage.
1 John 3:8b (AMP) 8 … The reason the Son of God was made manifest (visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen, and dissolve) the works the devil [has done].
So if you want to know what God looks like, look at Jesus, the perfect image of the invisible God.
In case you’re wondering why people could look at Jesus and not die, it’s because the glory of God that was in Jesus was clothed in His earthly body. Awesome, isn’t it!
John 5:19 (KJV) 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
’Til next time — Pamela
Pamela Moyle Ministries 