The Son in the Creation of the Cosmos

Here is my feeble attempt at exalting the Son in the creation of the cosmos - while theological in content, it is particularly doxological in form. This is what is said of him who is above all earthly powers -

In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made (John 1:1-3). For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:16-17). The Father appointed him the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power (Hebrews 1:2-3). The LORD possessed the Wisdom of the Son at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago he was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths he was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, he was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens, Wisdom was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then he was beside him, like a master workman, and he was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man (Proverbs 8:22-31).

The Son is the self-expression of the Father - he is both the Logos (i.e. the Word - the divine animating person of the order and knowledge of God cohering, upholding, and authoritatively governing the entire universe) and his radiant Image (meaning, he who perfectly reflects the divine Majesty and glory of the Father to the world). He is the creative medium through which the Father brought forth the cosmos. Even more, he is the very reason for which the Father created it. He is the active agent by which all things cohere, and he continually upholds the universe by his powerful word. He is the unfathomable wisdom of the Father. Most importantly, he is the only, unique Son of the Father, and it is in this deepest and most profound mystery that the key to both our existence and our redemption and eventual consummation into blessedness are found - namely, that the Father loves the Son, and the Son loves the Father.

SDG