Ascent—Week 11

John 14:1-14

“Don’t be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father’s home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know where I am going and how to get there.”

        “No, we don’t know, Lord” Thomas said. “We haven’t any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

        Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. NO one can come to the Father except through me. If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him and have seen him!”

        Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and we will be satisfied.”

        Jesus replied, “Philip, don’t you even yet know who I am, even after all the time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking to see him? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me. Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of what you have seen me do.

        “The truth is, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father. Yes, ask anything in my name, and I will do it!”

Think about that today! And God bless you!