Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways. In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things and made the universe through him. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. (1:1-3)
The book of Hebrews is a treatise to Jewish background believers, who were living in various places, that Jesus is far superior to anything else they had ever revered or trusted. He is greater than the prophets and greater than Moses. He is above the angels and everything else in creation because He is God the Son. In fact, the writer says, He owns everything because He created everything. Jesus, the Son of God, has revealed God to us by His very presence and in Him, we see God’s glory and God’s nature. The entire universe is subject to His majesty.
Think about that; the creator of all things and the sustainer of all things entered this world in human flesh to make purification for our sins. Then, He ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of the Father having completed all that He needed to do. This Jesus who walked among us and revealed God perfectly to us is the same Son of God who created all things. The bible says that He created all things and He sustains all things by the power of His word. Paul says something similar to the writer of Hebrews in Colossians 1:16-17, where he states that the Son is the creator of all things, “and he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
The Son of God created us and holds us together by the power of His will. That is profound when you think about what He went through to redeem fallen man on the cross. Jesus hung there and died, crucified by the very ones He created; He gave His life to ransom those who rejected Him as Lord. Not only did His creation reject Him, but they cursed Him, reviled Him, and spit on Him as He died for them. Even more amazing is the fact that He not only created us but holds us together. Apart from His sustaining grace and power, we would fly apart in zillion different molecules—yet the Son of God held His own creation together by the power of His will so that they could spit on Him while He died for them. Jesus truly is the “radiance of God’s glory,” how could we not love Him with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength?
