Today we have MANY options for listening entertainment – Streaming on pandora, Apple Music, Spotify are just a few. Those services are without an DJ.
Radio DJ’s at one time played a bigger role in culture. These people could be heard on the radio and rarely seen. One may go an entire lifetime and never see the actual person behind the voice.
BUT if they ever happen to see them, it was always shocking because the voice rarely matched the face. All that time having never seen them, it was very easy to imagine how you thought they may appear.
Some, who have read the Bible, get confused because it appears that the God of the O.T. differs from the God of the N.T.
It is this God of the O.T. (to some) feels very harsh, judgmental, ready to fly off the handle and kill people and destroy things.
But the God of the N.T. seems gracious and loving and kind.
Then there is Jesus who said in John 14:9:
“If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.”
All of the sudden the voice of the O.T. can be seen. What was thought of as a harsh persona changes.
Hearing Jesus describe the Father this way is like seeing on air voices for the first time. They always looked differently than imagined.
This is reassuring. Why?
As the Lord set the standard for fallen creation, a standard we MUST keep, it is the Son who fulfilled that standard for those who believe. By this grace our Lord gives us His perfection.
You want to know what the Father looks like? Look at the Son. In all His glory, love, mercy, grace and kindness. You can see the Father plainly in Jesus.
S.D.G.