Like Father, Like Son!
He who has seen
Me has seen
the Father; so how can you say,
“Show us the Father”?
John 14:9
We typically hear the expression, “Like father,
like son” and these expressions: “Like mother,
like daughter,” “the apple doesn’t fall far
from
the tree,” and “chip off the old block.”
We know the meaning of all these proverbs:
The traits and appearances of the mother or
father are usually replicated in their children.
Traits are not perfectly passed on, but seeing
parent and child together makes us
think,
“Oh, I’m not surprised!”
When it comes to Jesus and His Father, appearances are
not passed on since “God is Spirit” (John 4:24). As to traits,
Jesus can say, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
And Paul wrote of Jesus, “In Him dwells all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily” (Colossians
2:9).
The writer of Hebrews said, “The Son radiates God’s
own glory and expresses the very character of God”
(Hebrews 1:3, NLT). No wonder Jesus answered as
He did when Philip said, “Show us the Father”!
Many folks wonder what God is
like. They don’t realize they can
discover God’s character by
discovering the Person
of Jesus Christ.
The character of God is a
perfect and glorious whole.
William S. Plumer
