No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. John 1:18
Don’t knows are on the rise. Maybe that’s your position. You cannot commit yourself to a firm confession of faith, but you would not want to say that you are an atheist, so you say, “I don’t know.”
Do you see how John’s words challenge that position? You say you can’t know God, but the Son of God has come into the world to make God known.
Maybe you will talk to a friend or a co-worker who is a “Don’t know” this week. They ask you what you did over the weekend, and you say that you went to church. They say, “I’m glad you find it helpful, but I’m an agnostic when it comes to these things.”
You could say to him or her, “I understand why you would think that. The Bible says, “No one has ever seen God,” so how could any of us know? But the second half of that same verse says, “God the one and only has made him known!”
It would be a great mistake to walk away from this verse and say, “That was interesting, but I don’t know.” God the one and only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known!
John is telling us that if we get to know Jesus Christ, we have truly come to know God! And his Gospel was written so that you may know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Are you open to Jesus teaching you, through John’s Gospel, what you don’t know?
