My Father has
handed all things over to me. No one knows the Son except the Father. And
nobody knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wants to
reveal him. –Matthew 11:27
All things. Jesus is one with God, knowing and known
perfectly, one by the other. All knowledge, all power, all love, all humility,
all compassion, all generosity—all that is in God is in Jesus, and Jesus’ life
and work reveal to us a glimpse of the Father’s heart, which is still beyond
our comprehending.
To have been given this glimpse, which seems to us in our
smallness so vast and deep a knowing, is such a gift, such a grace. Our whole
lives—all we learn and know of God—is still only a glimpse of the Creator. No
matter how much we know, our knowing is but a grain of sand compared to what Jesus
knew of the Father.
Do you ever imagine what God knows of God’s whole creation?
The thoughts of the hawk I saw soaring yesterday, the sound of sap moving in a
tree’s body, the timing of my next breath, the location of every worm pushing
through soil—God knows all this. And God loves each with a love I cannot
fathom, but want to emulate.
