First Step - day 10

Today’s Bible Reading

John 14:4-11

4 [Jesus said,] “You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we don’t know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 7 If you really knew Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know Me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? The words I say to you are not just My own. Rather, it is the Father, living in Me, who is doing His work. 11 Believe Me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

Applying God’s Word in My Life:

1. How did Jesus describe His relationship with God?

2. According to Jesus, how can we know God personally? (vv.7,9).

3. What is Jesus claiming when He says twice, “I am in the Father and the Father is in Me”? (vv.10-11).

Today’s Key Verse:

Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord

Knowing

The Unknowable

In an attempt to express God’s infinite love and wisdom, a Christian kept this motto on his desk: “How great must be the God we need! How much greater is our God than our greatest need!”

In trying to grasp the mind-blowing nature of our Creator, the best we can do is use comparisons. He is like a faithful shepherd, a wise and just king, a loving parent, a trustworthy friend. All these images give us a glimpse of God’s greatness, but they are totally unable to describe Him fully.

John Wesley captured that same truth in a different way. “Give me a worm that can understand a man,” he wrote, “and I will give you a man who can understand God.” And in Psalm 145:3, David said of God, “His greatness no one can fathom.”

That is why it is so difficult to understand how we may know the Creator at all. Yet that is the wonderful message of the gospel. Our infinite God has revealed Himself to us in His Son Jesus Christ, who became a man. In the Gospels we read with awe and gratitude that the Creator became our Saviour. Jesus said, “Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). When we look to Jesus and listen to what He has said, we can know the unknowable.

—Vernon Grounds

Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious—Thy great name we praise. —Smith

If you’re looking for God, you’ll find Him in Jesus.