Reflection on John
Chapter 14
“Do not
let your hearts be troubled.”
In this
chapter we see how Jesus comforts his disciples and tell them he is the only
Way and the Truth and the Life, if one wants to come to the father. Both Thomas
and Philip asked an interesting question in return to what Jesus told them
about where he would be going and who the “Father” is. I found the question
asked by Thomas to be intriguing. This is what he said to Jesus when Jesus told
them he will go to prepare a place for them.
5 Thomas said
to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”6
And Jesus answered:-
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
And here is the question asked by Philip: 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
Jesus response:- : “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?
In the following versus I loved how Jesus kept referring back to his father and he was the one who has given him the authority to speak the words he was speaking to his disciples. You might think of he is equally powerful and able to do anything just like his father. And his father is him and him his father. But but…, how beautiful and wonderful he is to ordained all respect, love and glory back to his father. I see how he was so determination to accomplish what his father had sent him for!
The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me…
Not only for
his disciples but also Jesus has promised us if we believe in him, we can do
even more than what he has done and greater things in life.
Very
truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and
they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I
will do it.
God
is able! And his is able and faithful to finish all the work he has began with in
us. The word of God speaks to us “be still and KNOW that I am God”. So shall
we. Sometimes we might not know what we need to do about some difficult or
confusing situations we face in life. We might think really there might not be
a way out or it is going to cost us a whole lot more than what we can handle.
However, Jesus tells us today
14 “Do not let your
hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me!
He
is indeed the ONLY way! Our redeemer Lives!
“I am the way and the truth and
the life.”
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