Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Demanding

Jesus told Philip, “If you had known me you would have known my father also; and from now on you know him and have seen him” (John 14:7).

Philip answered the way most of us would have answered. “Lord show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us” (John 14:80).

From our distance, we understand that Jesus and the Father act as one. What the Father does, the Son does. The Son says and does only what the Father tells him. Therefore if we have seen the Son, we have seen the Father.

But before our spiritual heads get too big, how many of us have said we would believe if only we could see a miracle or an angel? Have we ever doubted our salvation or God because we did not experience what we thought should happen?

God’s ways are a mystery and we harm ourselves when we demand to comprehend all he chooses to do in our lives (Isaiah 55:8-11; Romans 11:34-36).