"Hello Hamlet, I am Shakespeare"

I just started a fresh study of the book of Hebrews, and I already know it’s going to be a rich journey.

I ordered Hebrews: An Anchor for the Soul by R. Kent Hughes (from the Preaching the Word series), and even before diving too deep, I’ve been enjoying doing some background work on the book—looking into authorship theories, setting, and themes. So much mystery around who wrote it, but no mystery about its purpose: to lift up Jesus as better. Better than angels. Better than Moses. Better than anything that came before.

And right from chapter 1, it’s beautiful.

“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son…” (Hebrews 1:1–2)

That thought alone humbles and excites me: God wants to be known.

He didn’t leave us guessing in the dark. He started with creation—His fingerprints in everything. Then He spoke through the prophets—flashes of truth, glimmers of hope. And now? Through His Son. The radiance of His glory. The exact imprint of His nature.

And here I am, sitting with an open Bible and an eager heart, wanting to know Him more. Not because I figured out how to reach Him, but because He came to me first.

Hughes captures a great analogy - one from C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy (pg 227). Lewis talked about a common objection from unbelievers:

“Man can’t know God — it would be like Hamlet trying to know Shakespeare.”

At first glance, that sounds like a pretty airtight argument. Hamlet is just a character in a play—how could he ever know the playwright?

But Lewis brilliantly turned that idea around:

“Yes, but Shakespeare could write himself into the play.”

That’s the gospel.

God, the Author of all things, wrote Himself into the story. He entered our world — not just as a voice from the sky, but as a man we could see, touch, hear, and follow. Jesus is the divine character in the great story of redemption. He is the Word made flesh.

So here I am, at the beginning of Hebrews, grateful that I’m not trying to climb some invisible ladder to God. He’s the One who descended, who speaks, who reveals, who writes Himself into my story — and yours.

Let’s see where this journey takes us.