”...the [One] only having immortality, light inhabiting unapproachable, Who no man saw nor is able to see, to Whom [be] honor and eternal power, amen.”
-Immortality. It is the lifelong wish of every soul, isn’t it? The quest for immortality. The fountain of youth. And as we age, as our own mortality encroaches, the relentless creep of death, we long for the days of our youth. When our vigor and our faculties were at their zenith. But oh, to be able to bottle that, a precious elixir which would somehow release us from the cold grip of death. That would be divine. But no, there is only One Who is truly divine, Who has immortality. Just One. Just One over Whom death has no power - because truly, what is death but the absence of life? The power of life - to give life and to destroy life (truly destroy it forever) - as well as to RE-store it - that is the purview of blessed and only Sovereign God, the King of the universe. He is the Author of life, the one and only Life-Giver - and the life He gives through Jesus is life forever. Death - gone. But this Living Water is sourced from just one place. Him.
-And you can just walk up to Him and get some. Well, sort of. It’s not like stopping by the nearest Dollar General, or walking over to the neighbor to get a cup of sugar. He doesn’t live next door per se. He inhabits what Paul describes as inapproachable light. Now let’s think about that - what would make light inapproachable? This would have to be light so bright, so blazingly blindingly bright that we couldn’t stand to look at it, much less come close to it. It would blind us for sure - or worse. Isn’t this what God has told us about Himself? God is light. Think of how He appears to His people - a burning bush, a pillar of fire, flashes of lightning (with attendant thunder), luminous glory which no man can look at and live (not the front side at least) - we ARE talking about a source of light (THE Source) so bright and hot and blazingly intense as to consume any and all who would come near. Isn’t that just what the Scriptures say? Our God is an all-consuming fire. So technically we can’t just walk up to Him. You can’t see Him or look at Him, even if you knew where to look. At least not this side of glory. For one day His blazing inapproachable light will actually replace the need for the sun itself. The people walking in darkness will see a Great Light, incomparable, inapproachable, yet sublimely-so through Jesus. Through Jesus, and with the eyes of faith, we actually can see and approach, right now, right on up to His throne of grace. And then in that day, we will see Him as He truly is, this One Who alone possesses (and is worthy of) all honor and eternal power. Darkness gone. Death gone. Life forever. With Him. From Him and through Him and for Him. Let it be so!
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