COLOSSIANS 1:15
"Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation."
Seeing is believing. That saying is repeated over and over among us. What you see is what you get. This is another way of grasping the idea that reality is available to our senses and you get no more than you can sense. Since time began man has tried to grasp hold of and sense God. In fact using our normal senses to quantify God, He was and remains invisible. Man has tried to make idols or objects of God that they could sense, but they are not God. It is a dilemma for the human mind to visualize something that is invisible. What was God's answer to the prayers of man to be able to sense or visualize God?
Jesus Christ came in the flesh as a man and God. He was visible to those around Him. He could be heard or smelled and even touched by others. Christ was the visible image of the invisible God. Seeing was believing. Many saw His miracles. Many heard His voice and message. Many touched Him and were changed. For that moment in time man was able to sense God in the form of Jesus Christ and SEEING IS BELIEVING. Not everyone was able to conclude that Jesus Christ was the Lord God, for they could only use their limited senses and mind. Even at this time it is hard for us to know that Jesus existed before anything and in fact He is the Lord God!
Jesus Christ is the exact likeness of our unseen God. Man was made in God's image, we are told, and although it is in a different dimension, conceptually we are told that Jesus was the visible image of the invisible God. Jesus was the first born of all creation. So to all those who do not believe in God, listen to the words of those that were His contemporaries. The saw Him and His miracles. They heard Him and they told His Good News to the entire world, even to this time. The touched Him and were touched by Him. They sensed that He was the Son of God and they saw Him ascend into Heavenly places. Because of their words we can know what they knew. Seeing was believing to them. What they saw was what they got. The invisible became visible. That is the one truth for today.
