“Who being
the brightness of [his] glory, and the
express image of his person...”
Our English
word character finds its roots in the
Latin, Greek, and French. Taking them jointly, we come up with the meaning: to engrave,
imprint, stamp, mark, or inscribe. The artists and craftsmen of Greece used
this word to describe the etching on the face of a seal and the engraving of a
face on a stamp.
As Caesar’s
exact image was inscribed in a coin, so also is the image of God engraved in
the face of Jesus Christ. That is, the character of God is seen only in Christ
Jesus. As one author wrote, “The Father’s whole “character” is fully and for
ever stamped and sealed upon His Son.”
Therefore, the spiritual and moral character of God, and that of
us, His children, should be our chief interest. His character, and then our
own, these two things ought to most concern you and me in the whole world.
Death will one day strip us bare of all that we now pursue and
possess. Only one thing shall endure for ever, the image and likeness of our
characters to that of Christ. And like Him, we also shall carry to the same
place the same things that He carried. And by the way, they’re the only things
we possess here that are worth carrying there!
Richard. D. Sandlin
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