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Recognizing God

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January 21, 2025 7:00 pm

Recognizing God

Our Daily Bread Ministries / Various Hosts

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January 21, 2025 7:00 pm

I flew to India, a land I’d never visited, and arrived at the Bengaluru airport after midnight. Though there’d been a flurry of emails, I didn’t know who was picking me up or where I should meet him. I followed the streaming mass of humanity to the baggage claim and customs, then out into the sticky night where I tried to spot a pair of friendly eyes among the sea of faces. For an hour, I walked back and forth in front of the crowd, hoping someone would recognize me. A kind man finally approached. “Are you Winn?” he asked. “I’m so sorry. I thought I’d recognize you, and you kept walking in front of me—but you didn’t look how I expected.”

We regularly get confused and fail to recognize people or places we should know. God provides an unmistakable way of recognizing Him, however. He arrived in our world as Jesus, who “is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of [God’s] being” (Hebrews 1:3). Christ is God’s exact representation. When we see Him, we have complete confidence that we are seeing God.

If we want to know what God is like—what He would say, how He would love—then we need only look and listen to Jesus. Are we truly hearing what “he has spoken” (v. 2) through Him? Are we actually following His truth? To be sure that we know how to recognize God, we fix our gaze on the Son and learn from Him.

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The Son is the exact representation of God's being. Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3.

Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Recognizing God was written and read by Wyn Collier. Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 to 4. In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways. But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom also He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful Word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven.

So He became as much superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is superior to theirs. Recognizing God. I flew to India, a land I'd never visited, and arrived at the Bengaluru airport after midnight. Though there'd been a flurry of emails, I didn't know who was picking me up or where I should meet Him. I followed the streaming mass of humanity to the baggage claim and customs, then out into the sticky night where I tried to spot a person who had friendly eyes among the sea of faces. For an hour, I walked back and forth in front of the crowd, hoping someone would recognize me. A kind man finally approached. Are you when?

He asked. I'm so sorry, I thought I'd recognize you, and you kept walking in front of me, but you didn't look how I expected. We regularly get confused, and face to face, and fail to recognize people or places we should know. God provides an unmistakable way of recognizing Him, however. He arrived in our world as Jesus, who is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being. Christ is God's exact representation. When we see Him, we have complete confidence that we are seeing God. If we want to know what God is like, what He would say, how He would love, then we need only look and listen to Jesus. Are we truly hearing what God has spoken through Him? Are we actually following His truth? To be sure that we know how to recognize God, we fix our gaze on the Son.

Learn from Him. Let's pray. Dear God, we want to know Your voice and follow You. Please help us recognize You in Jesus. In Jesus' name. Amen. As you go about your day, reflect on these questions. When do you have trouble recognizing God's voice? How does fixing your focus on Jesus help?
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