John8:19(Amp) says, "Then they said to [Jesus], Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered; You know My Father as little as you know Me, if you knew Me, you would know My Father also."
Many in the Body of Christ today, have different understandings about our Heavenly Father. Some still see Him as He operated among those under the Law and the old covenant, while others see Him as ignoring His Word and doing whatever He wants to do, because He is God. Some see Him as using hard circumstance, trials and sickness, to teach and correct His new covenant family. Some see Him as being the One Who is responsible for all the chaos, sickness, disease, trials and heartache we see around us.
God's Church should be asking the same question the disciples did in the above scripture. We should be saying, "Show us the Father." It's difficult to walk in God's will and Grace, when we don't know what His will is and what His Grace mean for our lives. The Father reveals Himself through Jesus. Jesus says on multiple occasions, "When you see Me, you have seen the Father." How can we say we know Jesus, yet still believe that the Father is the Author of the sickness, trials and heartache among His family? Many religious teachings have caused God's children to be double-minded and uncertain about our relationship with our Heavenly Father. If we don't know Him, His purpose and will in our lives, then we will no longer trust in His Word.
How can we believe that God is our Healer, if we think He's the One Who put sickness on us, in order the teach or correct us? Jesus made a profound statement in John6:63(Amp), where He said, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths), that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
We seem to forget that we're now born-again by the Spirit and our Heavenly Father deals with us, by and through the Spirit. Jesus said that, "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and Life." How does a Spirit Father teach, correct, discipline and train up a spirit child? 2Tim.3:16-17(Amp) says, "Every scripture is God-breathed, given by His Inspiration, and profitable for instruction, reproof, and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience and for training in righteousness in holy living, in conformity to God's will in thought, purpose and action. So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well-fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work."
God teaches us how to know and walk in His will and purpose, by His Word and Spirit. We blame God for so many of the bad things in our lives on God. This is nothing more than giving satan and unbelief free reign in our lives. This is because we haven't known our Father and His Heart. It must hurts God's Heart to hear His Own children, the ones He gave Jesus for, "God is the problem and not the answer." We've allowed the world and enemy to determine the Person of God to us, instead of God's Word and His Spirit. We still see Him from the old covenant, instead of the new covenant we've been born-again into.
In James1:22-23, James, by the Holy Spirit, writes about those who look into the Perfect Law of Liberty, the Word of God, and see who God has made them to be, but then go away from it and forget who they really are. This is what so many new creation people of God have done. We see in God's Word, that we are "heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus and sons and daughter of the Most High God." We see that we are no longer sinners, but righteous and holy in His sight. We see that we have access to God anytime and that we've been redeemed from the Curse and are now under the Blessing. We can see ourselves in the Mirror of the Perfect Law of Liberty, the Word of God, then put down our Bibles and forget what we look like in God's eyes.
Jesus didn't leave us like we were before being born-again by the Word of God. He created us in His Own Likeness and Image. We see what God has done on our behalf, but we're afraid to believe it, because we don't want to appear proud or self-righteous. We're not made righteous by our own efforts, but we're made to be righteous through Jesus. When we refuse to believe what Jesus has actually done for us, then we're like those in the Wilderness who refused to enter the Promised Land. The Holy Spirit cautions us in Heb.3:12(Amp), to "Abstain from the heart of unbelief, like those in the Wilderness, because this limited God in their lives." This same unbelief will limit what God is able to do for and through us today.
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