Family Our Heavenly Father doesn’t take Selfies He gives us a greater image

Family

Our Heavenly Father doesn’t take Selfies

He gives us a greater image

Ever wonder why no one has ever seen God the Father?

The cell phone has opened many doors of communication.

We can not only talk almost anywhere, we can text.

In the last few years, the selfie seems to have become an addiction.

One report in June of 2014,

 said we take 93 million selfies a day.

In Russia, police released a brochure of

diagrahams warning of the dangers of taking selfies.

It seems hundreds are being injured and

many even dying from taking selfies.

We are infacuated with the way we look.

From the glamor look, the duck face or fish face,

 we seem to love everything about seeing ourself and

sharing those images to the world through social meadia.

So maybe this is why we can’t understand

why God the Father doesn’t give us a selfie.

Moses had this desire to see God and was

privileged to see just the back side of His glory.

Is God the Father camera shy or is there

something greater He wants us to see?

In the sermon on the mount, Jesus says,

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

How comes the pure in heart get to see Him?

Maybe it is because what God

wants us to see is His heart –

His inner beauty.

God the Father does not want you and I to

have the same hairdo or wear the same garments.

He wants our heart to be like His heart.

Almost every description the Bible gives us of God the Father

describes His personality, character and the inner glory.

So next time you want to see God the Father

don’t look for images on social media.

Put the camera away when

you want to impress your friends.

The image Your Father and others want

to see is the expressions of a “Pure Heart”.   

Scripture Reading

Matthew 5:8 NIV

8 Blessed are the pure in heart,

for they will see God.

John 14:6-24 NIV

6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

8 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."

9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.