Today's Verse: Hebrews 1:1-2

God is the speaking God. He spoke our world into existence (Genesis 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26). Because God loves us, he chose to get his message to us in words we can understand. First, God used the patriarchs, leaders like Moses, and great prophets to get his message to his people. Then he gave a written record in the Scriptures - the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. Yet when God wanted to speak most clearly and reveal himself most fully, he sent his message to us in Jesus of Nazareth, who is Christ, Son of God, Immanuel, and Lord. For us, as his reborn children, his new covenant people, his Church, we must not just look at Scripture and obey it. We must also look to him, Jesus, as the greatest expression of God revealed to us (John 1:14-18). He fulfilled the Law and its righteous demands (Matthew 5:17). He came to show us and be for us the only way to God (John 14:6-7), and to show us God (John 6:46). He is the answer to all of God's promises (2 Corinthians 1:19-20). Jesus is the key to understanding what Scripture means and how to live it (Luke 24:47). So, dear friend, we pursue Jesus as the Holy Spirit transforms us to become like him (2 Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 1:28-29).