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“Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled”
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There are not many ways to heaven. Each person may not choose
his own way. Christ was the way by which patriarchs and prophets
were saved. He is the only way by which we can have access to
God.
But the disciples did not yet understand. “Lord, show us the
Father, and it is sufficient for us,” exclaimed Philip. Christ asked
with pained surprise, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you
have not known Me, Philip?” Is it possible that you do not see the
Father in the works He does through Me? “How can you say, ‘Show
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us the Father’?” “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.” Christ
had not stopped being God when He became human; the Godhead
was still His own. Christ’s work testified to His divinity. Through
Him the Father had been revealed.
If the disciples believed this vital connection between the Father
and the Son, their faith would not leave them when they saw Christ’s
suffering and death. How persistently our Savior worked to prepare
His disciples for the storm of temptation that would soon beat upon
them. Everyone there felt a sacred awe as they listened to His words
with breathless attention. And as their hearts were drawn to Christ in
greater love, they were drawn to one another. They felt that heaven
was very near.
The Savior was anxious for His disciples to understand why His
divinity was united to humanity. He came to the world to display the
glory of God so that He could lift us up by its restoring power. Jesus
revealed no qualities and exercised no powers that we may not have
through faith in Him. His perfect humanity is what all His followers
may possess if they will submit to God as He did.
“Greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”
By this Christ meant that under the influence of the Holy Spirit the
disciples’ work would have greater extent. After the Lord ascended
to heaven, the disciples experienced the fulfillment of His promise.
They knew that the divine Teacher was all that He had claimed to
be. As they lifted high the love of God, hearts were touched and
multitudes believed on Jesus.