📖“Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father.” John 14:9
There are many reasons I love Jesus, but this one sits at the very centre of my faith. Jesus shows me exactly what God is like. Not vaguely. Not partially. Not symbolically. But fully, clearly, and beautifully.
Humanity has always wrestled with the question, “What is God really like?”
Is He distant?
Is He harsh?
Is He impossible to please?
Is He watching from afar but unwilling to draw near?
When Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father,” Jesus answered with words that reshape our understanding of God forever.
“Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
This is why I love Jesus.
❤️ He reveals the Father’s heart.
1️⃣ I love Jesus because He shows me a God who is near.
In the Old Testament, God revealed His holiness, majesty, justice, and glory. Yet many still imagined Him far away. Jesus came to correct that perception. John says,
“No one has ever seen God, but the Son has made Him known.” (John 1:18)
Jesus is God explained.
God made visible.
God made touchable.
When I look at Jesus welcoming children, healing lepers, feeding crowds, listening to the broken, and restoring the outcast, I see what Packer calls “God’s own self, made visible,” a God who draws near. A God who bends down to lift the weary. A God whose presence is not reserved for the worthy but offered to the weak.
Christian theology teaches that we do not guess at God’s character, we behold it in Christ. As Packer reminds us, Jesus shows that the God who rules the world is the God who loves us, the Father whose heart is revealed in His Son. In Him, the invisible becomes knowable and the transcendent becomes near.
I love Jesus because He brings God near.
2️⃣ I love Jesus because He shows me a God who is compassionate.
In Mark 1, when Jesus touched a man covered in leprosy, Scripture says He was “moved with compassion.”
This is not a distant deity. This is a God whose heart responds to human suffering.
When Jesus forgave the woman caught in adultery, when He spoke hope to the Samaritan woman, when He restored Peter after failure, He was revealing the tenderness of God.
Philip Yancey once observed, “God gets His hands dirty when He comes to us in Jesus.” It is a striking phrase that reminds me that compassion is not God’s occasional emotion. It is His nature.
In my own journey, especially in seasons of pressure and complex leadership demands, I have tasted this compassion. When my energy was low, when decisions weighed heavily, when relationships were strained or when I carried concerns I could not easily share, I experienced the steadfast love Lamentations 3.22 describes, a God who understood, who supported, and who comforted.
I love Jesus because His compassion shows me how deeply God cares.
3️⃣ I love Jesus because He corrects my wrong pictures of God.
All of us carry distorted images of God that come from childhood experiences, cultural expectations, failure, disappointment, or spiritual pressure.
Some imagine a God who is impossible to please.
Some imagine a God who loves us only when we succeed.
Some imagine a God who is quick to condemn.
Some imagine a God who is mostly disappointed.
Jesus dismantles all these false pictures.
In the Gospels, He shows a God who is patient, not irritable.
Faithful, not fickle.
Gracious, not harsh.
Present, not distant.
There were seasons in my earlier years of ministry when I felt driven, stretched, and pressured to perform. Even spiritual disciplines can become performance if the heart is not anchored in grace. But Jesus corrects my understanding of the Father. Through Him, I discover a God whose love comes before my success, before my leadership, and before my best efforts.
N. T. Wright captures this beautifully when he says, “Jesus is what God looks like in person.”
I love Jesus because He reveals a Father whose love always comes first.
4️⃣ I love Jesus because He shows me a God worth following.
When people watched Jesus, they did not only admire Him. They wanted to follow Him. He was compelling. He was good. He was authentic. He was gentle and strong at the same time. He embodied everything the human heart longs for in a leader.
And because Jesus reveals the Father, everything admirable in Jesus is true of God.
As Philip Yancey observes, in Jesus we meet “a God who comes close, a God whose heart feels our pain,” so the qualities we see in Christ are the very attributes of the Father Himself. Truth. Justice. Compassion. Wisdom. Servanthood. Integrity. Courage.
This is the Father revealed in the Son.
I love Jesus because He shows me a God whose character is worth trusting, obeying, and imitating
🎵 My Worship Response
The worship song for today is “Good Good Father.”
“You are a good, good Father. It is who You are, and I am loved by You.”
This song echoes John 14:9. Jesus reveals not only the power of God, but the goodness of God. Not only the holiness of God, but the heart of God.
A second song that fits today’s theme is “This Is My God” by Joyce Omondi. It celebrates a God who is faithful, near, and trustworthy, inviting us to see the Father exactly as Jesus reveals Him.
🙏 Lord Jesus, help me see the Father through You. Remove wrong ideas of who God is. Let my heart rest in the truth that the Father You reveal is good, near, compassionate, and worthy of my whole life.
✨ Reason # 9 Why I Love Jesus
He reveals the Father’s heart, a God who is near, compassionate, trustworthy, and good.
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