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Monday 13 June 2016

How to See God


The miracles everyone knows that Jesus is credited with are a way to see God if you let them give you faith because in them God has revealed His own statement of testimony about His Son. So belief is needed to turn mere words in a Bible into a revelation of what God is like in how He regards His own beloved Son, Jesus Christ. People can read with a hardened unbelieving attitude all they like but if they do the Bible will not show them God. We have to be softened and have courage and belief as we read or think of scripture so a revelation of God appears in those words. And not just in reading and hearing being read and pondering scripture do we need a softened heart of courage to allow the words to turn within us into the revelation of God but the same is when we think about Jesus Christ His Son who Himself is The Word of God. Thinking of the miracles Jesus did but without the useless hardened fearful unbelief that is human nature but rather with an encouraged faith will allow revelation of God to appear to us in the miracles God gave Lord Jesus to do. Encouraging each other daily opens us up to this. Jesus must have meant something like this when saying what is translated:

"The Father who sent me is himself a witness about me. You have never heard his voice. You have never seen what he really looks like. And his word does not live in you. That’s because you do not believe the one he sent." (Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 37-38)