Today's Daily Lesson is from John 14 verses 6 and 7:
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.4 From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
There are many ideas about God - who God is, what God is like, and what God has done. There are ideas about God which say He is like a clock maker who wound up the world and then let it go completely on its own. There are other ideas about God which say He is an angry and vengeful God - a God full of rage, wrath, and destruction.
I listen to Jesus. Jesus says if you want to know what God is like then look at Him - Jesus. Jesus said that not in an arrogant way, but rather in the context of the last supper on His last night. He had just washed his friends feet. Get that, the master bent down and washed His disciples' feet. And He had also just taken bread and broken it, saying, "This is my body - broken for you," and taken a cup of wine, saying, "This is my blood - shed for you." It was just after that that Jesus told his disciples that they knew what God was like, for they had seen Him. It was Jesus' way of saying God looks like service and self-sacrifice.
The Bible says Jesus was "the image of the invisible God." That means that if you want to know what God is like then look to Jesus. Look at His heart, look at His compassion, look at His service and self-sacrifice. If your God does not look like these things then you have taken a false image.
Elton Trueblood used to say, the really radical thing is not that Jesus was like God, but rather that God is like Jesus. Think about what that means.
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