Cross-road to God
Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?’ Jesus answered him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me. Now that you have known me,’ he said to them, ‘you will know my Father also, and from now on you do know him and you have seen him.’ (verses 5-7)
Read John 14:1-14
When a baby is born, people like to play the game of ‘who does the baby look like?’ Adoptive parents, whose child is no blood relative of theirs at all, sometimes smile when unsuspecting baby-admirers say, ‘He looks just like his father’, or ‘She has her mother’s dimples’.
Jesus is just like his Father. So if we want to know what God is like, we should look at Jesus, as we see him in the Gospels. If we want to know what God thinks of sinners, or what he wants his followers to be and do, it is best to look at Jesus. Christians have always believed that Jesus Christ is God who took on human form, and that knowing God and coming to him are always inseparable from knowing Jesus.
When it becomes especially difficult to remain a Christian, no better advice could be given than the advice the writer to the Hebrews gave to struggling Christians of his day: ‘Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end’ (Hebrews 12:2).
Lord Jesus, I cannot see you without seeing the cross where you died for me. Help me always, then, to look for God in those situations which most clearly reveal your cross. Amen.
by Aub Podlich, in ‘Assurance for each Day’ (LCA, Openbook, 2004)
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