The apostle Philip said to Jesus, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Philip seemed to imagine that knowing God was some kind of out of body, extraordinary experience. Jesus taught that is was the very human encounter with him that revealed God. “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” To take it a step further, in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats Jesus said, “Whatsoever you do to the least, you do unto me.” In other words, we encounter Jesus who is the very image of God whenever we reach out to another. There is a line from Les Miz that captures this idea: “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
