February 4, 2021 (Thursday)
On the night before He was crucified, Jesus met with His disciples. During that encounter, Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father. In effect, Jesus replied, “Don’t you know me, Philip?” He went on, “He that has seen me has seen the Father.” Jesus said, ” I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” When they looked at Jesus, they saw the Father. (John 14:10-12).
Of course, there is an abundance of deep theology that goes with those words of Jesus. Jesus was literally in the Father and the Father was literally in Jesus. With the Holy Spirit, who is God, this is the mystery of the Divine Trinity.
If you are a child of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, then you are in Christ and Christ is in you. When people see you each day, do they see Jesus?
A poem was composed to honor the memory of a faithful pastor:
I was not born in time to see with eyes
The man of Galilee,
But, oh, I know he passed this way
For I saw Brother Brian today.
The first verse of a great gospel song advises us: “While passing through this world of sin and others your life shall view, be clean and pure without, within, let others see Jesus in you.”
B. B. Mckinney
1924
While passing thro’ this world of sin,
and others your life shall view.
Be clean and pure without, within;
Let others see Jesus in you.
Let others see Jesus in you,
Let others see Jesus in you.
Keep telling the story, be faithful and true;
Let others see Jesus in you.
Your life’s a book before their eyes,
They’re reading it thro’ and thro’
Say, does it point them to the skis,
Do others see Jesus in you?
Let others see Jesus in you,
Let others see Jesus in you.
Keep telling the story, be faithful and true;
Let others see Jesus in you.
Then live for Christ both day and night,
Be faithful, be brave and true,
and lead the lost to life and Christ.
Let others see Jesus in you.
Let others see Jesus in you,
Let others see Jesus in you.
Keep telling the story, be faithful and true;
Let others see Jesus in you.