“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.”
This echoes yesterday’s Gospel, where the crowd asks Jesus, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?” The relationship Jesus describes with God the Father expresses a bond between them that suggests the action of the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit through which Jesus speaks and acts. “The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.”
God, help me understand Jesus’ divine identity, animated by the Holy Spirit. This is the same Holy Spirit who “proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified.” Help me understand how it is the same Holy Spirit that dwells in all who believe that Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in him. Just as Philip wanted more proof (“show us the Father and that will be enough”), I want more and more proof so that I can say, “Enough.” God, help me know the peace of believing that you are in the Son and the Son is in you.
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus makes his father Our Father, and opens up the love between the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit. In the countless distractions of today, my hopes and plans are like wild animals held captive. Let me realize that today and let the Holy Spirit dwell in me so that I can hear the Father and do his work.
Today, “so that the Father may be glorified in the Son,” let me ask anything boldly in Jesus’ name. Let me accept that I have seen the Father in the Son, and let that be enough for me.