Reflecting the Father
In the past few weeks, I’ve really felt that I need to be heavily studying the person and ministry of Jesus. That was followed by a period of complete apathy where I did nothing about it. I’m hoping to buck that trend. Every so often I’ll post my reflections on a verse related to Jesus’ life, but what I’m really interested in is what you think about the verse. Blogging is really meaningless to me without the dialogue between you and me. Anyways, here’s what I read today.
John 5:19 (New International Version)
19Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
Jesus realized that he was a reflection of his father. This has huge implications for me as a dad. I fear that I have not always been a good source for my children to reflect. As a dad, I need to be more mindful of what in my life my children might reflect.
More important for me is how I’m supposed to reflect my heavenly Father’s behavior. I tend to give this very little thought. What are the qualities and characteristics of God, and how can I reflect those characteristics of Him more adequately? I know this will require of me much more devotion to reading and studying my bible as I nail down the characteristics of God that I should emulate and practically think how to live those things out in my life.
Does this have application for us as children of God, or am I reaching? If so, then for you, what aspects of God’s nature do you find you struggle with reflecting and what have you done to face those issues? Thoughts?
