“Philip said, ‘Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.’ Jesus answered: ‘Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.'”
John 14:8-9
God has placed within our hearts a yearning, a longing for Himself, a desire to know Him and understand what He is like. After all, despite the stain of the fall, we are stamped in His image, we are created as a kind of reflection of God. And every soul feels the void and the emptiness until it connects with its Maker. Yet God is incomprehensible. How then can our longing for Him be satisfied? How can we know Him?
Thankfully, our longings are satisfied in Jesus, for He has said, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” We can know God’s love when we look at the love of His Son. We can understand mercy and compassion when we look at the way Jesus demonstrated it.
The Father, through the Son, does not permit us to know Him by scrutiny and rationale. Tozer says, “That God can be known by the soul and in tender personal experience while remaining infinitely aloof from the curious eyes of reason constitutes a paradox best described as ‘Darkness to the intellect but sunshine to the heart.'” “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1:3).
Jesus, to Thee be all glory given! You are the Word of the Father now in flesh appearing. I sing a hymn of praise, saying, “O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!”
Blessings,
Joni and Friends
