I am marinating in this passage these days:

John 14:7-11 (NKJV)

“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?  Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves."

I love who Jesus is.  I love his personality!  His tenderness!  I love his strength, his passion, and his mercy.  I love his generosity, his humor, his power.  He is so profoundly attractive in every way!  He heals people but he does it with such tender love.  He is whimsical and authoritative and anointed and everything good.

Remember how his disciples would argue over who got to be closest to him?  They looooooved him.  They wanted to be near him!  People were ripping the roofs off to get to him.

And Jesus says, everything you love about me—you love about my Dad.  As much as you like me, you'll like him.  I'm just like he is!

Sometimes because of my own past experiences with my earthly father and other authority figures, my perception of my Heavenly Father has been distorted.  And not in a good way.  But the more I know him as he really is (and he's just like Jesus!), the more I want to simply RUN to him.  And then rest in his marvelous, generous, complete affection.

Corrie Ten Boom told a group once, don't wrestle with God, nestle.  Our God is mighty.  And our God is the best father ever.