Knowing Father

Colossians 1:16
(16) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

What does it mean to be made for Jesus?

All you spiritual people know, right? To give him glory, yes amen. To the lay person that doesn’t mean anything. So try again. This time from the heart, the heart he gave you, not the head that has been filled with some un-renewed doctrine.

I like cooking and I make all sorts of dishes for me all the time. They make me full. Do you think that we were made for Jesus to fill his appetite? Consider his comment to the disciples when he was at the well with the Samaritan woman. “I have meat you not of.” I don’t think he was gnawing on the woman’s thigh as he spoke to her cause she ran off to tell everyone about all that she had been revealed. Yet, it appears that his appetite was…

Let’s go take a look at how John addressed this for some added insight.

John 1:10-11 KJVR
(10) He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
(11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

Notice that the Creator was not known by the creation. That doesn’t appear to be to uncommon these day. How many times have you witnessed a child exclaim to a parent, “You don’t know me!” or heard commentators quip, “Do we really know anyone anymore?” It seems that the identity of Jesus is in jeopardy of being eclipsed by…by…by any and everything that he made!

So let’s go back to the opening question. What does it mean to be made for Jesus? Consider that Jesus is face to face to Father God and Holy Spirit. He is in a deep, satisfying relationship with them. This is the fount of our original design, to experience this relationship also. The writer of the book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is not ashamed to call us “bro”, or “brother” to you more conservatively minded. We were made for Jesus because He wanted siblings.

The Father liked the idea so much that He adopted us before the creation events took place. He then placed all of us inside Jesus so that we could all experience the love that they all share together. This entire plan is centered around relationship. The Father yearns for His children to enter into the family circle of love where He can pamper us like every proud father desires.

Now I realize that your myth of the Father’s responses to you may not align with the truth that He is trying to get across to you, but this is an area where He is trying to renew your mind.

Crazy Footnote: As I’m writing this last line, a program on television is playing this line. “My Dad hates me. He has always hated me. I was never good enough for him. He never wanted me.”

This is the claim of too many people today simply because they have never experienced the love of a father. They take this pain which resides deep in their soul and process all of their spiritual actions through this lens. As things develop in their life they craft the myth of a father-god who is distant, uncaring, who has turned his back on them. When they expected him to swoop in and scoop them into his arms and he never shows up, they reinforced their myth of theological parental abandonment once again.

The pains of the soul were what Jesus was addressing to the woman at the well. He deftly went past the filter of her perceptions and projected to her the true image of a face to face encounter with the Father. He never spoke to her past she had collected in a myth but touched her enduring wound to heal her. He made her and knew just what was needed to restore her. The relationship, the siblings united, this fed Jesus more than we’ll ever know.