Daily Reading
Jesus is the only one who has descended from heaven and thus is the only one who can authoritatively reveal to us the Father. In the Old Testament, people ascend to heaven but no one ever comes from heaven with knowledge of the Father. Jesus reveals to us the life of God, the true nature of our humanity (by being a man) and how we are destined for a life of glory in union with the Trinity.
John 16:23b-28
23 Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 24 Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. 25 “I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. 26 On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you. 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
my reflections
t h i n k : W e cannot afford to fight with one another as this is a complete and utter waste of our energies.
