“Our Commander,” or some other such thing. But we are told to call him Father! It was the love contained in that title that Jesus came to show us. God’s identity and our own These words teach us the answer to a fundamental question: Who is God? He is our Father. It is impossible to overstate the importance of having true knowledge of who God is. Remember what Jesus said: Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ (Jn 17:3). If we don’t know who God is, we won’t know who we are, and we won’t know what life is all about. If we want to see what happens when we get the wrong idea of God, we need look no further than the Garden of Eden. Consider how Adam and Eve change after they sin by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden (Gn 3:7-8). 13
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