Morning Meditation: "In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things..." - Hebrews 1:1-2a

The work of Creation was finished, and as the Master spoke His final blessing upon the covenant, He turned His attention to the One for whom it was written - and into the hands of the Bridegroom He placed the sacred scroll for safekeeping. "The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in His hands" (John 3:35). The Creator constructed a beautiful home for His creatures to live in, and now the owner of the covenant would faithfully attend to their well-being. "For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything...Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are His house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast" (Hebrews 3:4, 6).

The faithful Keeper of the Covenant would be none other than God's own Son; for no one else could fulfill the demands of our Marriage Covenant than the One we are betrothed to. God in His goodness has placed us under His protective care. He has placed everything in His hands and has put everything under His feet (1 Corinthians 15:27). God, who gave us everything we needed, since the days of creation, to bless and promote life, has now given us the One who alone can save our life. "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him" (John 3:16-17).

This morning as we gaze upon the holy image of God - as seen in His Son Jesus Christ - let us offer up a prayer of praise for this most extravagant display of His covenant of love. "This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His One and Only Son into the world that we might live through Him" (1 John 4:9).

Afternoon Devotion: "All things have been committed to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him." - Matthew 11:27   

In the beginning, God displayed His goodness, faithfulness, holiness, and love in nature, but today He has demonstrated the fullness of His divine attributes in the holy image of His Son Jesus Christ."He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" (Colossians 1:15). Jesus brings us a full revelation of the Heavenly Father. "No one has ever seen God but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made Him known" (John 1:18). As God's "only begotten Son," Jesus is of the same essence of the Father. In giving us His Son, the Father gave us the fullness of Himself. He has held nothing back from us. He has graciously given us everything. "He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all - how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?" (Romans 8:32).