The Pharisee said to the lord that the blind man Jesus restored sight to was born and shaped in sin but they themselves were born from Abraham and therefore somehow in their own eyes without sin but Jesus told them that because they said to him that they could see that their sin remained upon them because they thought themselves righteous and already right with God but Jesus more or less told them that they were mistaken and really living sinful , no wonder the Lord was frustrated with them and their self righteous attitude, wasn’t the first time that He groaned in his spirit at their failure to recognise Him as the Messiah promised and was even then in their midst and they should have known the signs of times instead of just knowing the signs of the weather. How compassionate Jesus is towards all who will yet believe on Him but how bad it will be for all who reject him.
Thank God for His compassion towards and upon us sinners. The God of the Old Testament I remember thinking was severe and impatient with the Jews and on reflection rightly so at times when they turned away from Him and worshipped idols and performed all kinds of hideous acts in worship of their idols like child sacrifice etc but in my mind I thought God The father of the Old Testament somehow was different from Jesus of the New Testament but in reality they are one and the same in everything, to my mind God The father is the same in both old and new while Jesus appears more gentle in dealing with the people especially the ones who believed he was who he claimed to be then we see the role of God The Holy Spirit in dealing with Ananias and sapharia his wife, to me the Holy Spirit stance was He was taking no nonsense from any human being and made an example of the pair of them seeing they both lied to the Holy Spirit even though we naturally think they lied to Peter . All in all they are clearly individual and one all at the same time, one God 3 persons, I know people reading this already know that Truth. So I often wonder that in heaven will we see Jesus only or see all 3 persons of God – a mystery yet to be revealed I’m thinking. But we can see their roles on earth during this gospel time period, think about what Jesus said him in the father the father in him , I and my father will take up residence in the believer along with the Holy Spirit who regenerates us before us and dwells in us as one with ourselves, so we see father, son and spirit dwell in us ontil God creates all things new as in new heaven and earth when Jesus gives up all to God The father and The father finally being over everything then we must remember also that Jesus said that when we look at him we also see the father because the father is In Jesus and vice Versa so I would conclude on that evidence that we surely will see the 3 persons of God in heaven if we can wrap our minds around that thinking, we do yet see things through a clouded glass window and not yet fully clear but we will one day know everything even as God already knows us already. We should perhaps also remember what Paul said that if only in this life we have hope then he was to be considered the most miserable man ever to exist but No rather our hope is an eternal hope yet to come into full focus only when we arrive in heaven were Jesus is even now awaiting our home arriving.
Milo 