The Brightness of Jesus

God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.  Gen 1:16  

In July 2010, a team of astronomers at the University of Sheffield discovered one of the most massive stars ever.  They labeled it R136a1 and it is 265 times the mass of our sun and 10 million times brighter!  

Can you even begin to imagine how bright that is?     This star may have weighed as much as 320 times the solar mass of our sun in its birth.  It is burning itself off at the rate of 10 million times the luminosity of our sun.  It was born very heavy and its been loosing weight as it ages. 
I'm sure that they have come up with a more proper name for this star by now.   

He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. Psalm 147:4

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.   1 Cor 15:41  
It reminds me of our dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.   No one born under heaven has born witness to the light of God's Glory like Him.   Jesus said ," I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”  

Rev 22:16  His brightness is due to the massive density of the Glory of God within Him.  The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.  John 1:14  


Jesus rose from the dead and now is seated at the right hand of the Father and the Father has bestowed back upon him the Glory that He had before this world came into existence. But it is His desire that we behold his glory that He might give it to us because He said " Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. John 17:24  
The glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:" John 17:22  It is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 4:6 

If the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?  For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.  2 Cor 3:6-9    

We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.  2 Cor 3:18 

Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever. 
Dan 12:3