October 26: John 14 8-11

Key Verse: John 14 8
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

Devotion:
Philip’s reaction was pretty much the same as Thomas’ reaction – show us something we can see so we can believe it! This is pretty much the reaction many of us have in our walk with Christ too – “just back it up with a miracle and I will believe!”

Jesus had done many miracles already and had given people many opportunities to believe and trust in Him – but when it came to saying He and God are one, even the disciples started to go back to asking for physical proof! Jesus wants us to trust Him through His words and not just through physical proofs because faith is believing in the unseen; and it is that faith which will carry us through when we are faced with difficult physical situations.

Trusting Jesus, I mean really trusting Him, is what fulfils that promise of eternal life in heaven. What good is believing if you have to have physical proof before you believe? I guess that is pretty much how many of us are brought up in our lives – requiring evidence before we trust and believe someone… and that comes from so many people around us not telling us the truth or going back on their words! This is not just something on a friend level but has become part of every part of our lives from friends through to families and even the people in charge of governing us.

This is something the disciples would have seen in their lives; we hear so much about how wicked and deceitful the tax collectors were at that time, but it would not have stopped there, it would have been endemic in their lives just as it is for us nowadays too. Jesus wants us to step out of that world and to step into the world where we can believe in and trust Him for everything in our lives.

Points to Ponder:
Do you find it hard to trust people who have let you down?

Has Jesus ever let you down?