He is our Lord and our God. He is Jehovah, as the Psalmist says: “Everyone among you must not think of himself more highly than he ought to think but think with sober judgment.”
This is what the Father loves to see in his children. He looks upon those who are humble and contrite in spirit, those who tremble at his word. We are to be like that. Ask the tax collector who stood far off, he wouldn’t even lift his eyes to heaven. He’s the one who was declared justified. Our instinct is to be much more like the Pharisee—shame on us.
Who the Lord Jesus is:
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Jesus speaks of himself as the first and the last, the living one. “I died, and behold, I am alive forevermore.”
We are waiting for our blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great and glorious Saviour Jesus Christ.
He’s called in the Old Testament “Mighty God,” and “Wonderful Counsellor” (Isaiah 9). The Lord Jesus himself speaks this way: “Before Abraham was, I am.” Referring to His own appearance in the burning bush, and the writer of Hebrews backs that up, quoting David speaking of the Son: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.”
