What Does God Look Like?

The teacher asked the little girl what she was drawing. She replied, “God.”  The teacher said, “But nobody knows what God looks like.” The little girl said, “They will by the time I’m finished.”  Funnily enough, she had stumbled upon a truth. The angels might have said to God, “But God, human beings don’t know what you look like.” He may have replied, “They will by the time I’m finished.”   Jesus was God’s answer to His longing for relationship with man. 

Remember what Jesus said to His disciples in John Ch.14:7-9? “If you had known Me, you would have known my Father also; and from now on you have known Him and have seen Him.” Philip said unto Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said unto him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip?” He who has seen Me has seen the Father…” Paul says, “In Him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col.2:9) The writer to the Hebrews said about Jesus, “Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person.” (Heb.1:3)  Wonder of all wonders, that the very Son of God would come to this sin cursed earth to redeem us, and come in human flesh.

As Wesley so eloquently put it, “Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as man with men to dwell, Jesus, our Immanuel.” Some people say, “I like the Jesus I see in the New Testament, but I don’t like the God I see in the Old Testament” The implication here is the God of the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament can’t possibly be related. The argument goes like this, “In the Old, God sent a flood that wiped out almost all of humanity. Later on, He sent ten plagues that almost destroyed Egypt. He gave orders to wipe out nations. He is an angry vindictive God. But in the New, Jesus healed the sick and fed the multitudes and even raised the dead. He can’t possibly be the same God as that Old Testament one?”  But Jesus said very clearly, “I and My Father are one.” (John 10:30) “He that has seen Me has seen the Father.” (John 14:9) 

Right now, God has extended grace and mercy to a wicked world through His Son. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, But, that the world through Him may be saved.” (John 3:17)   (John 3:17) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” 

But be in no doubt, one day the Lord will return. And when He does, He will be coming not as a Lamb but as the Lion of Judah. This time He will come as the rightful and righteous Judge of all the earth. Nations will rise up against Him but He will destroy these wicket nations with the Sword of His Mouth. (Revelation 19:11-16)  

Still not sure what God looks like? Then take a long hard look at Jesus. 

- Pastor David Goudy