Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me

John 14:9
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Jesus responded to Philip as above, when Philip asked Jesus to show him the Father. The disciples such as Philip, at that time, did not yet understand that Jesus is the face of the Father.

Today, that response from Jesus can remind us of our relationship with God and whether we really know Him through the Son Jesus, Yshua Ha Masiach. Many believers should know Yshua, but how close are we with Him? Living in this world and not seeing Yshua physically, it is easy for any believers to get distracted by physical things.

To know Yshua, who puts the Holy Spirit to live in us, require us to walk with Him, have communion with Him, and in touch with Him in the spirit because God is Spirit. We know the theology that Yshua is the Son, and is One with God the Father. So we will not ask the same question as Philip did. However, when we really know Him in the deepest most way, it is the time when we will experience the full joy of being with the Lord, like heaven on earth.