The Only Way to Know Our Father in Heaven

John 8:19

Then they asked him, "Where is your father?" "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

During the time of Jesus, the collaboration of one or more witnesses was required to establish the truth in any matter.  The Pharisees were taunting Jesus, insinuating that He had no witness to the truth that He was the Son of God.  They were blindly calling for a testimony in the flesh to confirm a divine truth.

With pity and patience, Jesus convicted them of their own shortcoming.  He pointed out to them that He was all the proof that they needed that He was the Son of God.  He emphasized that if they could not see that He was who He said He was, they would never know His Father.  This was a claim that enraged the self-righteous Pharisees. 

If we try to have head knowledge of who God is and define our relationship with Him without a relationship with His Son, we will end up in the same place as the Pharisees.  If we try to use our own logic and the testimony of what the world offers to determine our relationship with Almighty God, we will miss out entirely on having an intimate relationship with Our Creator. 

Fortunately, Our Creator is completely aware of our weakness.  Through His grace, His loving kindness and His mercy, He provides the Holy Spirit to leads us into an intimate relationship with His Son, Our Savior.  If we follow the supernatural guidance and urgings of the Holy Spirit and surrender completely to a relationship with Jesus Christ, we will experience the unimaginable peace and joy of an eternal relationship with the Father and the Son. 

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for allowing us to know You through Your Son, Jesus.  May we learn to reject the need to define You and our relationship with You by the world's standards.  We pray that our minds will be transformed by the Holy Spirit so that we will come to know you intimately through our relationship with Your Son.  We ask all these things in the name of the brightness of Your glory, Jesus Christ.