Nourishing the Seed by Bob Mumford

Author:Bob Mumford [Bob Mumford]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780768488234
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

Thoughts and Questions

In what ways have you seen only a fragment of a circumstance rather than the whole picture? What was the result?

What could Simeon and Anna only see a portion of?

Explain how all the fragments were gathered up and put into the person of Christ.

READING 62

How God Reveals His Glory

Whom we have heard, Whom we have seen with our [own]

eyes, Whom we have gazed upon [for ourselves] and have

touched with our [own] hands (1 John 1:1 AMP).

GOD CAN NOW BE seen, heard, touched, and understood because God poured everything He was into the person of Christ. He was the full embodiment and the mirror of God’s glory. This is God in disguise! God didn’t send a committee; He came Himself. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself (see 2 Cor. 5:19).

Because God is a Spirit, He chose to reveal Himself by the use of the incarnation—“the word made flesh” (see John 1:14). You shall call His name Immanuel—God with us. Jesus was God’s final speech, so that we could understand how God speaks. The opening words in the Gospel of John present the concept of the incarnation as the self-revelation of God put into fleshly form so that we could know, understand, and love God, who is a Spirit. The thrust, meaning, and purpose of the incarnation is Jesus’ statement: “Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9 AMP).

Matthew is one of the few writers who explains God the Father as incarnational. He wrote the beautiful phrase, “No one fully knows and accurately understands the Son except the Father” (Matt. 11:27 AMP). In a moment of deep, personal spiritual insight, he saw the Father and the Son as one person, each revealing the other—the Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. They relate to each other by means of the Agape paradigm.

How does the world see God’s glory? Through you and me. Of course we are not Jesus, but because Christ is being formed in us, we begin to look like Him. We are the light of the world. Our goal is to live our lives so that people can see the Father. If they could see that we have been with Christ, they would see compassion, grace, mercy, slow to anger, truth, faithfulness, and forgiveness written on our countenance and hear it in our voice. God’s glory is going to be revealed in the earth and it has to be through us.

Paul stated that,

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