John 14:6-10 The Message
Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You've even seen him!"
Philip said, "Master, show us the Father; then we'll be content."
"You've been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don't understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, 'Where is the Father?' Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren't mere words. I don't just make them up on my own.
The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act."
As we begin the work of studying the words of Jesus together, this short passage from John 14 seems the right place to start.
Jesus reminds those who question his identity that the words prove the truth. In fact, he says that they are crafted as "divine acts."
Listen to Jesus, hear the heart of God.
It means that this open browser window of scripture is a divine act of the Almighty. It means that the Bible lying on my desk is an act of divine creation. It means that the words I hear read to the people on Sunday morning are somehow completely, yet much more than, merely human.
Do we believe it? Perhaps.
We want to. But we're sometimes so mired in the human frailties of this life that we can't crack that cover and enter into conversation with the divine. He knows. And he doesn't give up.
Let's start the journey.
Grace & Peace,
Today's question: What does it mean to say, "Jesus Christ is Lord?"
