The sun is merely a created thing, yet it blazes so intensely that humans cannot look at it directly or approach it. How much more glorious, then, is the Creator! He is “the Father of lights,”1 who “dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see” (1 Timothy 6:16).2
God told Moses, “for man shall not see me and live” (Exodus 33:20). The truth is that humans cannot face God’s glory directly, much less grasp the full extent of His majesty. That truth explains why God came as the human, Jesus Christ. “He is the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15).
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature… (Hebrews 1:3).
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.… No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known (John 1:14,18). M