In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.- John 16:26

February 5, 2008 Floyd Ray Gage

This statement of Jesus can be rather confusing if you are not careful in how you interpret it. Is Jesus saying that after His Resurrection, we will not need Him as a go-between to the Father? We know this is not true, because of other verses in the Bible. Jesus is our go-between.

When we accept Christ we are covered with His righteousness, because of His sacrifice on the cross. We are then able to stand before God holy and righteous, because of Jesus. We need the covering of Jesus and will continue to need the covering of Jesus.

Does this mean that we don’t need Jesus interceding for us? We know this isn’t true, because we are told that Jesus is at the right hand of the Father and is interceding for the saints continually. Thank God He is doing this. We don’t always know what to pray for or what we need. We don’t even always understand our great need to pray. We have Jesus praying for us when we don’t know what to pray for and when we are too confused or lost in our own way to know to pray.

So what is Jesus telling us here? Again, we need to see that He is saying that in His Name and for His glory what He is talking about is going to happen. Jesus is saying that we will have access to the Father and be able to understand the things of the Father, without Him having to beg the Father for this understanding to come to us.

What Jesus is saying is that because of what He has done, all saints are going to be fully accepted by God and will be able to understand God and His Will and will be able to commune with God without a need for someone else to do it for them. In other words, when we come to God in Christ, we are not step-children. We are complete and full children of God.

This is revolutionary news. When we come in faith to Christ and make Him our Lord, we are transformed. We are changed in such a drastic way that our minds, hearts, spirits, and wills are transformed so that we can understand and commune with God. We become the sons and daughters of God. We are the blood relatives of God through the shed blood of Christ.

We don’t always act like it nor do we always show it, but saints have been made the complete and full children of God. It would be wonderful if we started to act like what we have been made. We could transform our world with the help of the Holy Spirit or at least our little corner of it.

The problem is that most Christians don’t realize the totality of the transformation that has taken place within them. They are like the goose that was raised by chickens. Every time he saw a flock of geese he felt the urge to fly, but he just didn’t know that he could so he stayed earth bound. So many Christians do not realize the full extent of what Christ has done for us.

He has saved us for eternity and we will spend eternity in heaven. The thing is we are also saved in the present. So many Christians are concentrating so hard on their future in Christ that they are forgetting that He has also saved us for the present. We are His representatives in this world today. We are His witnesses and we have been empowered to do this by the Holy Spirit. We are also empowered to live a life that is unhindered by sin. We don’t always choose to allow that power to control our lives, but it is there.

We are the full and complete children of God today. We need to start living like it so that we can make an impact on this world for Christ today.