Sent of the Father
For I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. John 8:16
The Father hath not left Me alone. John 8:29
I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. John 16:32
Jesus affirmed these three times in John’s Gospel that His Father had not left Him alone, because He and the Father are One, and as the perfect Holy One of God, He always did those things that pleased the Father. Nevertheless, His Father sent Him into the world to endure the time when He would cry out, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” (Mt. 27:46). How we love Him for it!
--Tom Steere
By Thee, O God invited, we look unto the Son,
In whom Thy soul delighted, who all Thy will hath done;
And by the one chief treasure Thy bosom freely gave,
Thine own pure love we measure, Thy willing mind to save.
--M. B. Peters
