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Seeing the Invisible
When Tæoma (Thomas) saw Yeshua after his resurrection he made a peculiar statement that some have interpreted as blasphemy and others as confirmation of Yeshua's deity.
"And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." - John 20:28, KJV
"And Tæoma said to him, My master and my Almighty." - Yuħänän (John) 20:28, Peshitta
But to attain the correct understanding we must keep this statement in the context of a previous discussion.
"Yëshuå said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life. Nobody may come to the Father except in me. If you knew me, you would also know my Father. And soon you will know Him and you will see Him. Pilipoş said to him, Our master, show us the Father and it will satisfy us. Yëshuå said to him, I have been with you all this time and you do not know me, Pilipoş? He who sees me sees the Father. So how can you say, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in my Father and my Father is in me? The words which I speak, I do not speak of my own, but my Father who lives in me performs these works." - Yuħänän (John) 14:6-9
So
afterward just as Yeshua had said, Tæoma finally recognized the
Father, Who is God, within Yeshua. He saw the character and the power
of God exhibited in his master. The first part of his statement "My
master" was to show he had overcome his doubt about whether this man
before him was in fact his risen master, then after pause revealed that
he had also come to acknowledge that his master was in the Father, and
the Father was in his master. He no longer needed to see God, Who can
not be seen physically, but saw what qualities could be seen of Him in
Yeshua.
Leaves in the Wind
One might say. "Show me the wind." However, the wind is not visible, it is invisible. But if we throw leaves into the wind and put the wind into the leaves, we can perceive the wind, how it moves, it's direction and speed. However we are really only seeing the effect or characteristics of the wind, and not the wind directly itself. In this way Yeshua is like the leaves, and God is like the wind.And when one sees leaves being whipped up into the air they say, "Look at that wind!" At first the disciple only saw the leaves, then he realized that the leaves reveal the wind while the leaves are not the wind and no one has ever seen the wind.
"No man hath seen God
at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." - John 1:18, KJV
"No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth
in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given
us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the
Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in
him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is
love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." - 1 John 4:12-16, KJV
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" - 1 Corinthians 3:16, KJV
The reason I have quoted the King James Version of the bible here is because these passages are faithful to the original message and it is the source so many trust who have misinterpretedTæoma 's statement as an indication of the deity of messiah. So there is no excuse to not understand exactly what he meant. It is obvious that we too could receive such a statement since we too are to have God living within us and we too are to exhibit His characteristics.
Let me repeat that in case you did not realize what is being said here. You can say to a faithful believer "My master and my Almighty" or "My Lord and my God" with this understanding and intention, and you should be able to say that of any believer. You are then saying, I see the messiah in you, and I see God in you.