See Jesus, see God.

See Jesus, see God… John 14.7-11

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Key verse:… Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! vs. 9

Good Morning~ 

Jesus.  See Jesus, see God.  See Jesus born as a child, taking his first steps … see God; see Jesus learning to swing a hammer… see God.  See Jesus call his disciples one at a time—knowing they would one day change the world … see God.  See Jesus take little children upon his lap, and brush the hair from their little faces … see the tenderness of God.  See Jesus find a place of solitude to pray … see the intimacy of God.  See Jesus face loneliness … see the willingness of God; see Jesus get rejected … see the rejection of God.   

In the next breath after “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” Jesus again identifies himself as the face of God to the disciples.  It is not like it was a newsflash to the men, Jesus had told them before, I and the Father are one*… yet Philip says, “show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”  Though they were with him, and had seen his work, though they knew Jesus better than anyone on earth, they again questioned because he had just told them he was going to leave them. 

See Jesus, see God.  Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.  Jesus looks into their faces, imploring them to understand!  ‘Don’t you see?  To see me, is to see what my Father is like.’  Friends, take note: the God who loves, came to us—and he did so in several ways.  First, he entered into a plain, ordinary home and into an unremarkable family.  And since Jesus learned the trade of his father, we see God dignify the work of our hands.  God became a carpenter, a tradesman … God knows and sees what it is like to have to ‘make ends meet’… he knows the anxieties you face in the pressures of this 24-hour a day, never unplugged, every-increasing, high-expectation results you must provide. 

See Jesus, see God.  God knows what it is like to be tempted.  Remember the 40 days in the desert that inaugurated Jesus’ launch into public ministry? Surely you did not think that was the extent of the temptations Jesus faced!  God came, God felt, God struggled that he might identify with us.  The God who loves came to us.  Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. 

See Jesus, see God ...

Christine

PastorWoman.com

* John 10.30