To Be Chosen

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

 TO BE CHOSEN

Matt 11:27

27 "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

NIV

We already considered this being revealed the things of God, but here there is more. First, we must see that the Father has given all authority over all things to Jesus and it is the Father who has the full comprehension of who Jesus is and as far as knowing the complete fullness of God, only Jesus knows all there is to know about the divine Godhead. We get that, the supreme, divine, almighty Godhead is only known in the fullness by them alone, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Yet, Jesus also says that He has the authority to reveal all the knowledge of God to whomever He chooses. The question then is how do we know who He chooses? Are there or were there only a few people He chose to reveal the truth about the Father? We think that we would need to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior first, before we had any chance of being among those, he reveals the truth about the Father. However, once we have accepted Jesus, then if we are listening, we would hear Him speak about the Father. Again, Jesus has sent us the Holy Spirit, who will lead us into all truth, and that would also include the truth about the Father. Jesus has said that if we see Jesus, we see the Father. He has said that He and the Father are one, and He prayed that we would be one as well. In fact, Jesus prayed that we would be one as He and the Father are one. That could mean that all of us believers should be one, as Jesus and the Father are one. It could also mean that we believers are one with Jesus and the Father. If we are in Christ, and we know that to be true, then the only way it makes sense is that we are one with Christ and therefore one with the Father. If that is true, then there should be no mystery about God whatsoever. We can know all there is to know about the Father because we know all there is about Jesus, for we have been told everything about Him and have been revealed the truth through his authority in sending the Spirit. We have the complete record of God, at least from the beginning of time of humankind, written by men whom He inspired. Why do we always want to think there is this great mystery that surrounds God? It might be easier to just say it is all a mystery and then forget about what Jesus reveals to us. However, we were created by God in His image, therefore we should know Him just on that basis alone. Becasue Jesus reveals the Father to us than there is no mystery for, we know who the Father is and how He works toward His perfect will and pleasure, both for himself and for His creation. In fact, we would say that we have been chosen to be revealed the knowledge of the Father. Therefore, let us live in that knowledge so that we can experience this confidence, first of our salvation, second of the eternal life we will have as we are forever present with the Lord. But even more then that, we can live confidently that we are one with God, secure and safe from all alarm.