Have I been with you so long

Have I been with you so long,

and yet you have not known Me?

"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!" John 14:8-9

It is possible to be with Christ a long time, and to know very much about Him — without truly knowing Him.

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 — 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.

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