Bible Reading: 1 Chronicles 16, 17, 18; John 7:28-53
“But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me” John 7:29(KJV)
Jesus Christ did not mince word in declaring His identity again to the same set of people He has always been teaching the subject about the kingdom of God. The teaching was so touching that when the audience did not seem to get what was on Jesus Christ cried in the temple just to let them come home with the fact that Christ is known by them. He thus reiterates the truth, “Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not” – John 7:28 (KJV).
It was not difficult for Jesus Christ to let the crowd know that He and God are One, and that He knows Him well. Christ confessed to the fact that the crowd who were listening to Him did not know Him, “…but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.” Paul the Apostle corroborated this as he says in11 Timothy 2: 11-13(KJV), “it is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: … if we deny him, he will deny us: if we believe not, yet he abideth not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”
Christ’s audience failed to know Him by their way of life and Jesus attested to this fact. However, this disposition did not make Christ lose the track of where He came from. Jesus made it known that even if they did not know, He knows himself quite well. The Scripture says it well “But I know him: I am from him, and he hath sent me” – John 7:29 (KJV). Do you know where you came from? Until this is done, you cannot have a correct bearing of the assignment you are to get done here on earth. Look for Christ today and He is willing to receive you to Himself.
Prayer Point: Dear Lord, help me never to lose the track of where I came from as a result of the attitude of the people in Jesus name.
Rev. Julius Oluwole