Good morning. Do you ever wish (and I must confess that I do) that we would have been given a more complete physical description of Jesus? I know, it isn’t important to our salvation and would only serve to satisfy curiosity, but I would like it just the same.
God didn’t think that such a description was important for us, but we do have a description of Jesus. In Revelation 1:12-18 we read the account of the apostle John who was allowed a visit to heaven so that he could properly write the Book of Revelation. This is the same John that called himself “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” This is the John whom Jesus entrusted with the care of His mother after he would die on the cross. This is how John described the heavenly Jesus:
Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.”
This is the Jesus that John was close to, a man he considered not only his Lord, but also his friend. Upon seeing Him, John says, “I fell at his feet as though dead.”
Amazing! Colossal! Incredible! There was no adjective that could adequately describe Him.
What would we look like if we had never sinned? There would be no worry lines wrinkling our brow. No fear or anger in our eyes. No bitterness forming a snarl on our lips. No selfishness stealing from our smile.
One day, we will see Jesus as He truly is, and we will be seen as we truly are. All of our sins will have been cast away and remembered no more, like they never happened. We will be perfect, even as He is perfect. Come Lord Jesus!
Vern