Last night I was back where I have spent what seems like half of my life… a church!  This time it was actually for a funeral service (see “My Rock” post for some back ground).  As the pastor officiating the service was giving his sermon he used a verse in the bible and continued on with the passage but something stuck out to me that I couldn’t move away from so quickly.

In John chapter 14 Jesus is talking to his disciples about his upcoming exit from this world.  They can’t understand what is happening and start to question how this whole “Father in Heaven” thing, to which Jesus answers, “I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you really know me, you will know my Father as well… (v.6-7)”  Philip still didn’t understand and asked Jesus to show them who the Father is.  Once again, Jesus replied, “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.”

The pastor continued on with the “only way to Heaven is through Jesus” part, which is GREAT, but I couldn’t stop thinking about “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”  I couldn’t help but think about the pictures on the way up the stairs in the cabin we are living in.  You see, after our recent move back to WI we moved into my parents cabin on the lake temporarily.  They still have our family photos from the ’80’s on the wall, along with all 4 of us kids’ senior portraits surrounded by a picture from each grade of school.  Every night, after snuggling with Brody and eating cereal I walk him down those stairs and some times he points at the pictures and say “little daddy!”  Truth be told, every I look at those pictures I think, “Man, I looked like Brody.”

The point being this: Brody got his physical characteristics from me, because he came from me.  I got my physical characteristics from my parents, and so on.  Yet, when we are acting in the capacity that God created us for our we look like our Heavenly Father, because he is our creator and we came from him!

I couldn’t help but ask my self as I read this, “do people see Jesus in me?” If the answer to that is no, I need to correct myself and get back to what I was created for, and who I was created by!

I pray that in every way when people see me, not only do they see Larry Liebe, they see Jesus Christ.