Seeing Jesus
by Ruth Olsen
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‘Who do you say that I am?’ (Matthew 16:15)
Jesus and his disciples had been travelling in the country regions. They were in a remote area near the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 15). There the disciples had seen the seven loaves and a few small fish that Jesus had blessed and miraculously multiply as the disciples distributed them to the crowd.
Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus, asking for ‘a sign from heaven’. Jesus then warned the disciples to be discerning of the ‘yeast’ (teaching) of the Pharisees and Sadducees (Matthew 16:1–12), and they came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, north of the Sea of Galilee – observing, learning, struggling to understand, asking questions along the way.
Here Jesus asked the disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ They gave various replies. ‘But what about you? Who do you say I am?’ And Jesus said Peter’s response was revealed by his Father in heaven, not from people.
Who do you say that Jesus is? Have you been in conversation about your walk with Jesus and heard yourself say something new and significant about that? You recognise you didn’t think that up; it was given and revealed to you as you were speaking it. Like what happened to Peter!
Like those first disciples, there’s so much for us to learn to walk in, exercising faith in using the keys of the kingdom of heaven to change things here on earth as we bind and loose, in the authority Jesus gives us, for God’s kingdom purposes. As with Peter, though, it’s not in our own strength but by the Holy Spirit teaching and training us (Zechariah 4:6; John 14:25–27; 16:12–15).
Holy Spirit, open the eyes of our hearts … to see Jesus more clearly!
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