'Don't you know Me?
Don't you know Me?
"Philip said, 'Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.' Jesus answered: ' Don't you know Me , Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time?'" John 14:8-9
It is possible to be with Christ a long time, and to know very much about Him, without knowing Him in the true sense of the word.
Philip knew Jesus as a man, as a worker of miracles, as having a very beautiful character; but he seems never to have gone below the surface in understanding Him.
He did not know Him as the revealer of the Father. He never saw Divine glory in the radiance which streamed from that blessed life.
And not to know Christ in this aspect, to know Him only as a man, is not to know Him at all.
To leave out the Divine in our thought of Christ, is not to have any Christ at all.