Seeing The Father
John 14:9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
The disciples had journeyed a good while with Jesus and heard Jesus speak often about His Father. Their curiosity was getting the better of them. They were ready to see Jesus’ Father. At least here we discover Philip was.
But here in Scripture we find it revealed that Jesus was a perfect image of the Father here on earth. Jesus did what he saw His Father doing, and He spoke what He heard His Father speaking.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”
Whenever Jesus showed compassion and healed a person that was because He witness the Father at work healing that person. When Jesus spoke forgiveness it was because He heard the Father speaking forgiveness.
There’s something really comforting to knowing you are not an orphan, you have a Father, not only do you have a Father you have the best Father ever. I trust that you know very well that if you are in Christ, God has become your Father too.
John 17:20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Jesus prayed for you to be one with the Father just as He was one with the Father. The original glory of fellowship with the Father that Jesus had He prayed you would have with the Father so you could know how precious it is to know God in such closeness.
I hope you were able to also note how Jesus said, “that the world may know that You have sent me, and that You loved them as You have loved Me.”
Jesus was praying that about you! You are loved like Jesus was loved by the Father! The same Father who did such mighty and wonderful things through Jesus is for you, with you, and loves you just as He loved Jesus.
Can you see that Father being your Father today? He is! I hope you’ll take some time and think about this so that it can sink in and bless you.
