How Awesome is This

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE

HOW AWESOME IS THIS

Luke 10:22

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

NIV

These are difficult words to fully understand. Even our Scholars of old have not given any great revelation, but only given mere conjectures. But then their thoughts are based on their denominational bais. How do we make sense of what Jesus said? All things have been given to Jesus. The Father has given Jesus all authority concerning everything, which would include us. This is why Jesus told us that we can ask anything in His name, and He would do it. Sometimes we refer to Jesus as the Son, but to be honest, that is simply His title, but it is not His name, for as the Angel told Mary His name will be Jesus. When Jesus said that no one knows Him except the Father we are not sure how that can be, for we have the whole of scripture which reveals the truth about Jesus. Then we have the fact the Holy Spirit dwells within us and leads us or reveals to us all truth. However, it is Jesus who sent the Holy Spirit, so in that sense, we are among those to whom the Son has revealed all truth regarding the Father. Jesus said that if we have seen Him, we have seen the Father. Although we have not physically seen Jesus as the people did when he walked the earth, but then some of them did not see him, as who he was, the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is fully God and fully man. However, through the scriptures with the leading of the Spirit, we have been able to see Jesus, and because we have seen Jesus, we have seen the Father. This seeing is, of course, in the spiritual sense, but then God is a Spirit. He is the one perfect divine Spirit, as is Jesus. What is a little confusing is this idea that Jesus chooses to whom he will reveal the Father. This may be why some believe they are the chosen people of God while other people are kept in the dark and predetermined by God to perish. However, we know from the gospel according to John that it is God’s will that none should perish but that whosoever believes in Him, Jesus, will have everlasting life. Therefore, God has predetermined before the beginning of time, or when He created all things, including time, that all men should come to the knowledge of His Son, Jesus. But that is our choice, our free will which God gave us so that we could choose. So, when Jesus said that he chooses to whom to reveal the Father, it comes down to those who believe in Him. Jesus chooses to reveal the Father to those who choose to believe in Him. If people elect to not believe in Jesus, then He chooses not to reveal the Father to them, and they will remain in the dark, and given over to their reprobate minds. We have chosen to believe in Jesus as the Spirit moved us to and we have been given the Spirit by Jesus so that all things have been revealed to us, including the Father. How awesome is that, We are living in the revelation.