TO SEE ME IS TO SEE THE FATHER

PRAYER PAUSE

Thursday 3 May 2018, Philip and James

TO SEE ME IS TO SEE THE FATHER

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading:  “To have seen me is to have seen the Father, so how can you say, ‘Let us see the Father”? (John 14:6-14)

Reflection. In the final long conversation of Jesus with his diciples as recorded by John over several chapters we see a growing revelation of what it is “to know the Father.”  The disciples could not possibly have understaood what he was saying at the time.  This is the mature reflection of a man decades later.  He is inviting the disciples to see beyond his physical appearance to what Mary saw when she sat at his feet while Martha was busy in the kitchen. We know the disciples had a problem recognising him when he appeared to them after rising from the dead. Why could they not know him? We normally answer this by saying simply, “There was something different about him.” We cannot go further. And this same blockage is described here. The disciples cannot, as yet, penetrate beyond what they could see and touch. But the reality is there before them, and us.

    

Prayer. Lord, help us to know you and so to know the Father who sent you to be with us and walk with us on our return journey to Him. Amen