Reflections

 25″O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

 26and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”  John 17:25-26

In the Old Testament the Law and the Prophets made sin known.  People’s understanding of God was limited to the law.  Many saw God as a judge or law giver.  When Jesus came to the earth He revealed to us God the Father.  Jesus said He only did and said what He saw the Father doing.  Whenever someone had an encounter with Jesus they had an encounter with the Father. 

Through the life of Jesus we can get to know the Father.  In the above scripture Jesus is praying to the Father how He has made the Father known to us who believe.  By making the Father known to us we can also know the love of the Father and the love that Jesus experienced is also in us.

Too often we rely on our own viewpoint of God in our quest to know Him.  We rely on what we see or have experienced in our own lives.  Jesus points us to the Father.  His life is a reflection of God the Father.  So if Jesus did what the Father was doing then we can know this: That God loved us so that He clothed Himself in flesh, came and lived with us, taught us, healed us, died for our sins, arose from the dead, and clothed us in His righteousness.  God is in us and we are in Him.  Now that the Father is made known in us, let us be a reflection of Him so that we may make Him known to the world.