Come, See Me

Psalm 99

Waking in the early morning hours trying to pray I am brought back to my earlier proposition, to tell God His characteristics He has shown me personally in my life. But as I lay there fighting to focus on God's glory I began sensing God wanted me to get up and look into His Word, more specifically leave my phone right there on the end table and use the Bible I have on my bookshelf in the bathroom. The prompting was, "Come, see me".

As I opened my Bible to Psalms 99 there were several things that stood out immediately, and some took time to sink into my thoughts. First, I was seeing the whole psalm, not just a few verses like my phone displays. Next, that I'm not reading through a mostly cracked screen (no, I won't claim my occasional typos are because I can't see my words clearly). But then I am also seeing all of Psalms 92 through Psalms 99. I see the opening lines of Psalm 93, and 97, are the exact same as Psalms 99, "The Lord reigneth". And Psalm 96 and Psalm 98, "O sing unto the Lord a new song". The other three psalms begin with, Psalm 92, "It is good to give thanks unto the Lord", Psalm 95, "O come, let us sing unto the Lord", and Psalm 94, "O Lord to whom vegeance belongeth; O God to whom vegeance belongeth, shew thyself". God's prompting to me was, "Come, see me". My inner cry I was asking all along was just that, "Show yourself", and God's response at this time, at the right time, "Come, see me".

A new friend wrote me yesterday the pursuit they had in their own life was so much the same of what a back at the time a new friend, but friend to my wife for many years, what she told me I needed to do those last couple of days before my wife died, "Run to Jesus". Focus only on Him. So even though I was reading God's Word daily, often through the Bible every year, I started reading, studying every day, deep enough to not only record my thoughts, but my write my meditation of what I read. The first was the book of Isaiah one chapter at a time. My chronic disease had ended and I was yet unable to drive or work so though I had plenty of time, an hour or less, but occasionally longer was all I needed. But the fact was I was seeking to know God, focus only on Him in a much greater way than even in college with all it's Bible classes, chapels, and special meetings. Two years after my wife died this meditation journal came to be. But in a new and fresh way God has prompted me to once again right now, "Come see me".

As I sat and read this morning the verses from John 14 came to me, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me". In my mind I quoted those first three verses, but then with one finger still in Psalms I opened to John 14. Then the thought came from hearing these verses read so often at funerals, for these disciples, yes, the flesh and blood body sitting before them would be lying in a tomb twenty four hours later, this was not a life ending passage or eulogy, but rather a truth for them to go on living which all of them did, even greater when Jesus Christ, the son of God, was raised from the dead by His father. But continuing reading in John 14 I read,

Jesus said unto him, I am that Way, and that Truth, and that Life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip said unto him, Lord, shew us thy Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus said unto him, I have been so long time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me, hath seen my Father: how then sayest thou, Shew us thy Father? Believest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of my self: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

John 14:6-10 GNV

Again, it comes back to me "Come, see me". Yet here the words of Jesus take me deeper. The disciples there and then see flesh and blood fully God, fully man sitting right there in front of them, seeing that part of Him with their own eyes. But Jesus breaking that focus that they may realize they are also seeing the Father, like we might say, you’re seeing the real me. "Come, see me".

But then there's that last phrase, "the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works". This takes another step even deeper.

Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered, and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe in him, whom he hath sent.

John 6:28-29 GNV

The works Jesus did were from the Father within Him. Jesus told the people who asked, to do the work of God that they believe in Him whom He has sent. The Father who was in Jesus Christ, indeed is one in Jesus, as He said, I and my Father are one, we can work His works by believing in Jesus Christ, with him working through us.

At this point in my early morning rising so many thoughts of so much of God, so many of the Scriptures, Scriptures on open pages in front of me, other Scripture I know, so much seemed to burst like the grand finale of a fireworks show. It would be like a particle physiscist using the Large Haldeon Collider at CERN in Switzerland to discover the positive spin or negative spin of some new particle that makes up this physical world. Or an astrophysicist imagining the wonders from the false colored images from the James Webb telescope as it peers into the distant universe to only find more galaxies filled with stars, of which each star in each galaxy God the Father knows by name. Basically for these two groups of people they are seeing things beyond their wildest imagination. That is how my thoughts came as I sat and saw these Scriptures, the Psalms 92-99, John 14, and John 6, all open to me at the same time in my hand and thinking so much of who God is, also far beyond, if not further beyond my wildest imagination. And just like one set of tests from CERN the records examining and identifying existing particles and finding new ones, the research will never be exhausted, these thoughts God brought to me will be years in studying, learning. Much the same of studying the images from JWST showing far distant objests in our universe. All of these they will never see with their own eyes, only with complex elaborate tools they must have to see these.

But as Jesus said, if you have seen me you have seen the Father, no special expensive out of your reach tools required. This is open regardless where you live or what condition in life you find yourself, no matter your IQ even. God invites you, Jesus invites you, "Come, see me."