Not My Truth

Sometimes se are too close to see clearly.

If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.' Philip said to him, 'Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.' Jesus said to him, 'Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, "Show us the Father"? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. - John 14:7-10

What is it that Philip wanted to see?

Did he not believe Jesus when Jesus told him the father was in him?  What does that mean, anyway?

Perhaps it wasn't enough for Philip to know Jesus and the Father are one, or maybe he didn't believe it.  It is clear, though, that he wanted more.

We always want more, don't we?  It is never enough to be told something.  We need to see for ourselves, and if what we see doesn't fit the image we expect, we want something else.

Philip had an image in his head that was different from what Jesus showed him, and so, he rejected what he heard.

Jesus wanted his disciples to see that there was and is only one truth, and yet they continued to believe in their own version.

There is a lot of that going around today.  We all have our own version, and so we reject what we hear if it doesn't match up.

The problem with that is we will never be able to communicate with each other.  It is like the Tower of Babbel all over again.

Each of us is right, and so no one learns anything new.  No one can convince anyone of anything else.

The debate is over, and confusion has won.

So, we are all Philip, and though the truth is right before our eyes, we are blind to it.

How do we fix that?

More to come...