AUG 5 - Let's be Transformed
8 Philip said, “Master, show us the Father; then we’ll be content.”
9-10 “You’ve been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don’t understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, ‘Where is the Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren’t mere words. I don’t just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.
John 14: 8-10 MSG
Philip’s funny because he’s us in any given situation. He’s confused, and it makes sense why. We have trouble making sense in God becoming a man and dying for our sins.
Notice that Jesus calls out the length of time he’s been with him:
You’ve been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don’t understand?
Because we can walk with God for a while and still be confused on the concepts. Jesus corrects him however and reminds him that there is no distinction between God and Jesus. They are the same!
In the same way when we accept Jesus into our hearts we’re receiving the nature of God as well! If you were rude before knowing Jesus how can you be rude after receiving Jesus? It doesn’t make sense, this is why we must be born again, we must get baptized and allow God to transform us.
Not just encounter us, transform us.
The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.
The things we say become divine acts here on Earth.
Words have power, now we can say “be healed in the name of Jesus,” and it will happen. These are divine acts, opportunities for God to be made manifest in the kingdom.
Has God ever encountered you and transformed you?
Do you struggle with your own nature over God’s nature?
How can we be renewed and transformed?