If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him." Philip said to him, "Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it. (Jn 14:7-14)
All long for God experience. And God experience is made available to the people. Philip’s request to see the Father is the same. But Jesus’ answer saying ‘to have seen Jesus is to have seen the Father’ explains that God experience or Abba experience is same as Jesus experience. Jesus experience is visible in his works. Whatever Jesus does reveal who Jesus is and gives Jesus experience which in turn gives God experience.
Even the believers will do the same works of Jesus or even greater than Jesus’. So believers’ works also will give God experience. This is the truth that we have to accept. Jesus experience or God experience is made available in the works of the believers.
The statement by Jesus “If you ask anything in my name, I will do it” has made the followers to go on asking for anything and everything. When certain things do not happen then the followers lose their faith in Jesus. But Jesus clearly says that things have to be asked in ‘his name’. When we say that we ask in the name of Jesus we mean that we enter into the character of Jesus; that is to say: will Jesus ask for such an such a thing?.
