Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content.”
Jesus replied, “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
-- John 14:8-9
"Have I been with you so long, and you have not known me..." The question pierces through all excuses and intentions. With me from the beginning, has familiarity with the formality of the relationship replaced the experience? In other words, has "Christianity" replaced "Christ-life"? The words, "so long," raises the question "how long"...? How long since I was overwhelmed with awe and wonder? How long have my passions focused on temporal things when the eternal things are at my fingertips? How long has my true desire for Jesus, been put at second or third rung down?
Prayer: Jesus, help me find true contentedness in seeing you. Forgive me where I have devalued the sacred through familiarity. Thank you that your passion towards me has never ebbed, even when I made myself busy with other things. Help me to fill my life with wonder and fire again.
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