When the risen Jesus encountered Saul on the road to Damascus, Saul asked, “Who are you, Lord?  The answer was, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.”  Following that encounter, Saul knew that Jesus is indeed The Lord God of Israel.  So later he could write, “…there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” (1 Corinthians 8: 6). 

By the Spirit, we confess Jesus as Lord.  So, we affirm Jesus as the Lord God of Israel.  However, turning that around and affirming God AS Jesus is more than a little helpful.  The word God has many different meanings as people put their own ideas into it.  But when we affirm God as Jesus, we see God as he is unveiled to us through this man.  It isn’t simply God in this human, but God as this human. We really need to let this sink in.

In light of this, we now understand that there is simply no God hiding behind Jesus waiting to be found.  No divine being is more real or true than Jesus. When we see Jesus we see God. So, as the Nicene Creed emphasises, the Son is “God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God. From now on, the answer to every question about God is Jesus. Jesus is God and he reveals who God is and what he is like.  If you want to see what God is like you look at Jesus.