To believe in Jesus is to believe in God. Many people believe in God but they find it hard to believe that Jesus is all that he claims to be. But when we doubt Jesus, we doubt the fundamental things that God wants us to believe about him. God sends Jesus to us and says to us, ‘This is who I am’. If we then reject that, or if we even reject that God would do something like that, we reject God’s revelation of himself. The incarnation of God into human flesh makes a powerful statement about the character of God. God wants us to know him as one who comes to us. He wants us to look at Jesus’ life, and particularly his sacrificial death, and recognise that this is God demonstrating his love for us. Jesus is, as John states in 1:1 and 1:13, the incarnate Word of God. In other words, he is God’s perfect and ultimate self-revelation. To receive God as Jesus Christ is simply to receive God as he has chosen to reveal himself. So, Jesus says: “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me.” God wants you to know him. He wants to dispel from your mind every false image of himself and reveal to you who he really is and what he has done for you. You can see that in Jesus Christ.
As you continue to read the life of Jesus say to yourself, ‘Jesus is showing me here who God is’.
Read John 12:44-50
