Seeing Jesus

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When the disciples asked Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus answered that if they had seen Him, they had seen the Father. Jesus further said I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. “The words I say to you I do not speak with my own authority.” Please see John 14:1-11.

This is the concept of the Holy Trinity that we know and believe in as Christians. God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit are one, and yet they are distinct. Thus, when Jesus came down to earth, He came as fully man, and yet He was still fully God as the Father was in Him, and He was in the Father. If you go back to Genesis 1:26, you will notice that just before God created man, He spoke in the plural form. God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit existed together since the beginning of time. John mentioned this in John 1 when he said that in the beginning, there was the Word (logos), and the Word was with God and was God. In verse 14, John wrote that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten (meaning son) of the Father, full of grace and truth.

I’m just reiterating the concept of the Holy Trinity here as a reminder to us as well as to enlighten those who may not know.

The message this morning is, however, a bit more personal. More often than not, as we go through crises, we can’t see Jesus in the midst of the commotion and the rush to deal with the situation. Usually, the events will overwhelm us, and we don’t see Jesus in all that. The Lord is assuring us today that He is in our midst and that He is with us even as we go through those rough times. As we pause and pray, we will see Him working in our midst. He is with us and in us. He has not forsaken us. He will bring us through those difficult times. There will be a light at the end of the tunnel. There is a resolution to all that misery and trouble. He will prevail with us. We will be victorious with Him at our side! He has never and will not ever forsake or abandon us! Amen!