Show me Your face, oh God. I want to know You. Reveal Yourself to me, oh Father. These are prayers of my heart, longings from deep within me. I long to know God. To see Him as He is, to know Him as a friend. The quest seems illusive, however. The more I search after Him, the more I long to know Him.
What is the formula, the definitive means by which one can come to know God. How do I really get to know God? To see Him for Who He is, to relate to Him as a friend? It's a good thing that God anticipated my questions ... long before I was born. Well, I guess I wasn't the first one to ask the question. It seems Jesus' disciples were asking pretty much the same thing in John 14, which begs the question, "why am I still asking it?". Jesus did, after all give a fairly succinct answer to the question in verse 7.
John 14:7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him; and have seen Him."
"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also". To know God, all I have to do is know Jesus. I know it sounds simplistic to say "all I have to do", and truth be told, knowing Jesus does take commitment, diligence and discipline, BUT, knowing Him is really not that difficult. I can know about Him by spending time in His word. I can know Him, by being in relationship with Him, by spending time with Him. Who is the first person I call with good news, the first person I call for advice, the first person I go to with my problems ... ? How can I expect to know Jesus if I don't spend time with Him, if I don't go to Him with my failures and my successes, if I don't seek His counsel on the situations I face in my life?
How can I expect to know my Father if I don't know His Son?
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