YOU DO KNOW HIM!
If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. John 14:7, N.I.V.
Jesus was going away. The eleven remaining disciples at the Last Supper wanted to go with Him. Their anxious questions caused the Master to utter some of the most explicit language ever recorded in Scripture concerning the Father. He was not going to another village; He was going to His Father in heaven.
The disciples simply could not grasp what He was telling them, even as He told them more about where He was going--how much room there was in His Father's house. "I will come back and take you to be with me," He told them reassuringly. "You know the way to the place where I am going" (John 14:3, 4, N.I.V.).
Their response was amazing. "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" (verse 5, N.I.V.). To say that they did not know where He was going said, in essence, that they did not know the Father. "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.' " Then He told them plainly, "If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him" (verses 6, 7, N.I.V.). "To know Me is to know the Father."
Dear reader, has your heart ever cried out to really know God, yet He seemed very remote, quite far away? Focus in upon His Son, the "express image" of the Father (Heb. 1:3), and be assured that in knowing Him you do know God! You need not allow your feelings of estrangement from Him to persist as did the disciples. You may trust the Saviour's pronouncement.
Read the rest of John 14; go on to chapters 15 and 16 until Jesus sighs with loving relief, "You believe at last!" (chap. 16:31, N.I.V.). "You believe that My Father has shown Himself to you in Me! You know that the Father Himself loves you! You understand that His eagerness to have you with Him is no less than Mine."
Let our hearts be comforted, which was Jesus' desire. Let us know that the Father's heart yearns for us. So much so that He sent Jesus to give us that very message. And let this knowledge set you free to engage actively in friendship with Him.
If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. John 14:7, N.I.V.
Jesus was going away. The eleven remaining disciples at the Last Supper wanted to go with Him. Their anxious questions caused the Master to utter some of the most explicit language ever recorded in Scripture concerning the Father. He was not going to another village; He was going to His Father in heaven.
The disciples simply could not grasp what He was telling them, even as He told them more about where He was going--how much room there was in His Father's house. "I will come back and take you to be with me," He told them reassuringly. "You know the way to the place where I am going" (John 14:3, 4, N.I.V.).
Their response was amazing. "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" (verse 5, N.I.V.). To say that they did not know where He was going said, in essence, that they did not know the Father. "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.' " Then He told them plainly, "If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him" (verses 6, 7, N.I.V.). "To know Me is to know the Father."
Dear reader, has your heart ever cried out to really know God, yet He seemed very remote, quite far away? Focus in upon His Son, the "express image" of the Father (Heb. 1:3), and be assured that in knowing Him you do know God! You need not allow your feelings of estrangement from Him to persist as did the disciples. You may trust the Saviour's pronouncement.
Read the rest of John 14; go on to chapters 15 and 16 until Jesus sighs with loving relief, "You believe at last!" (chap. 16:31, N.I.V.). "You believe that My Father has shown Himself to you in Me! You know that the Father Himself loves you! You understand that His eagerness to have you with Him is no less than Mine."
Let our hearts be comforted, which was Jesus' desire. Let us know that the Father's heart yearns for us. So much so that He sent Jesus to give us that very message. And let this knowledge set you free to engage actively in friendship with Him.
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