At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, " All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Growing up, like most kids, Saturday morning was a time for cartoons. I especially liked what ABC did between the cartoons. I still remember their tunes to help me learn parts of speech, and the constitution. For instance, “…Conjunction Junction, what’s your function. Hooking up words and phrases and clauses…” The tune still comes to my mind. As I was reading the days Scripture, the conjunction AND near the end of the verse is what came to my mind.
In the words that precede it, we are told the following:
- No one knows who the Son is, except the Father.
- No one knows who the Father is, except the Son.
Taken by themselves, these two statements are rather exclusionary. Unless you are the Son or the Father—you are left out of the loop! But, then, the little conjunction –AND—comes into play. “who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” If we want to know the Father, we must first know the Son. When we know the Son, He—the Son will reveal to us the Father. It is the Son that chooses the “anyone” to which he will reveal the Father.
Somehow, folks seem to miss this little tidbit. They think they can know God and learn about God without first knowing the Son. I don’t think that this is so. If we want to truly understand God, we must first understand Jesus and what he has done and is doing for us.
Think about it.
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