Show Us the Father

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

September 22, 2025

Show Us the Father

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one can come to the Father except through me.

John  14:6

In Jesus, the Glory of God has been revealed. In Jesus, we see the heart of God, the Father. Jesus, as the revealed Glory of God, washed the feet of his disciples, loved his disciples, and was the Passover Lamb who took away the sins of the world. Jesus is the revealed Glory of God. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Jesus shows us the way home to paradise, the way home to God, our Father. Jesus and God, the Father, are one.

Therefore, because of all that Jesus is, he can make the most comforting promise in the Bible: “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am” (John 14:1-3).

This one promise is the tipping point of my response to all the claims Jesus has made on my life. My fidelity to Jesus’ command to go and make disciples depends on my response to this promise. My willingness to entrust my life to God so that He can use everything in my life for His purpose of transforming me to become like Jesus depends on how deeply Jesus’ promise resonates within my soul. Is Jesus’ promise to me sufficient to earn my unconditional, unqualified obedience? My truth is that I equivocated a bit and, like Phillip, I said, “Lord, show us the Father, and (I) will be satisfied.” And, as in his response to Philip, Jesus replied to me, “Have I been with you all this time, (Alex), and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you?

Scripture doesn’t tell us how Philip responded to Jesus, but he is mentioned twenty-six times in the Book of Acts, so we can be assured he sorted out the truth of Christ.

My Takeaway: As for me, my equivocation is over and my faith rests securely on the Trinity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have my undivided loyalty.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2025 by Alex M. Knight

 

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