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Friday  18  January

God, who at Sunday times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath  in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.  Hebrews 1, 1.2.

When people speak to each other they are expressing their relationship to one another. The communicative effect of words is like a bridge joining two sides of a river. When people fail to talk to each other there is no relationship. By means of words we can reveal and express our innermost thoughts and feelings to our partner. But our words also give the lie to our character.

The living God has always spoken to mankind, showing in this way who He is and what He thinks. It was His intention from the beginning to enter into a relationship with His creatures. And even though sin destroyed the original relationship, God has never ceased to speak. In Old Testament times His messages were communicated in different ways by His prophets. That is how we are to understand the “divers manners” of today’s verse. Then in the Person of His Son all that He wished to tell us became reality.

Since the birth of Jesus, therefore, God’s way of speaking took on another form. In Him God Himself became Man, and not for Israel alone but for the whole human race. The Person of the Lord Jesus Christ is God’s message to mankind. He came as the perfect manifestation of God’s thoughts and revealed the Father’s heart to us. In Him God built the bridge, so to speak, to bring the believer across to Himself. The relationship that was destroyed is thus restored. The mission that His Son  was sent to fulfill is the supreme  expression of God’s love, but it is at the same time His final word to mankind.