Monday, April 24, 2023

No One Comes to the Father Except Through Love

"I am Road, Truth, and Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. If you people knew Me, you knew My Father too. And from this point on you know Him and have seen Him."
     There is so much more to what Jesus says here than how this is commonly interpreted. Frequently, like many verses, John 14:6 is ripped from the rest of its context as though it was meant to stand alone. It was not. Jesus Came from the Father, and He was going to the Father. He came from Source and was going to Source. But more than this, He was Source incarnate. He was the human incarnation of Source, and as such He was the human incarnation of the person and personality of Source, which is love. He was the embodiment of love, made visible, made manifest for every human being to see, hear, and handle. Everything He embodied was how to get to Source, everything He embodied was the Truth, everything He embodied was Life and the Source of Life. He wasn't talking about believing a particular dogma about Him, He was talking about Himself as He was.
     Jesus Christ is God. God is love. Jesus Christ is God incarnate. Therefore Jesus Christ is love incarnate. And it is this love, this love which God is, which is the means by which we come to the Father, we come to Source. It is this love which is Truth in the absolute. It is this love which is life, and the Source of all Life.
"For as much time as I am with you and you didn't know Me, Philip? The guy who's seen Me has seen the Father ... Don't you trust that it is I within the Father and the Father within Me?"
     Jesus Christ had been displaying the Father, Source, since day one. As the "avatar" of Source, without realizing it, people were getting to know who the Father is as they got to know Him, and what He is like. He explained, revealed, and manifested the Father just by being who He was.
     No one comes to the Father except through love, the Road He taught and embodied. As Paul wrote also, "without love I have nothing ... without love I am nothing." There is no other way to the Father except through that love which Jesus Christ embodied, manifested, and taught.

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