Look North

Jesus, the Final Word – North Star 2.2 (Hebrews 1:2) November 9, 2007

“And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son.” (Hebrews 1:2, NLT)

We are in the ‘last days’. Some interpret this by putting emphasis on our time on earth being short or the increase of evil in our world. But here ‘final days’. refers to a season of time in which God has chosen to speak (and be known) through Jesus. These days are the last, there will be no other days after these. Jesus is God’s final, most complete and perfect way by which to speak. We should not expect another. We have no need to pursue or seek another. The present mode of communion with God is Jesus. And this will be the way from now on.

God has used a wide variety of ways by which to speak to people. Each of them is a grace by which people could know God and His ways. And all of these ways are still at His disposal. But each of the ways that He uses point to Jesus. They always have and always will.

And in these last days Jesus is one of the ways. But He is not one way among many equals. He is the Way, the best Way, by which God speaks. Any other way that He uses to speak is a starting place; while His hope is that people would finally find their way to Jesus.

And those who seek to know God in the fullest way are to seek Him through Jesus Christ. For those who know Him, to not diligently pursue a full knowledge of Jesus is to fall short in our pursuit of God. This negligence begins with sloth and pride and ends in idolatry. But you who listen and know God through Jesus will find the voice that transforms, heals, guides and loves you into the beautiful person God longs for you to be.