If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.” -- John 14:7
Jesus tells me that not only, in knowing him, do I know the Father, but that I have seen him also. In examining myself, where have I acknowledged or seen the Father in my life recently? Do I know him in only a past sense, or is the experience fresh? The "from now on" implies this experience is to be ongoing, but too often I am living on the afterglow of encounters that have passed. To know the Father, and see him, is to first know the Son. Knowing starts with the acknowledgement, in faith, of the things in my circumstances that are as a result of him.
Prayer: Jesus, help me see the Father at work today in me. I thank you for the many ways you are at work in my life today. Specifically ... As I acknowledge your hand help me to know your heart so that mine can be formed after yours. Let my experience of you, Lord, be ever new as I become sensitive to the slightest staleness.
Red Letters is a devotion for Lent 2018 by Chris Michael Moore of His Call Church - ヒズコールチャーチ