Episode 4
THE PREDICTABLE LOVE OF GOD
(Get To Know Your Father)
Friday, 4 September
TO THE BIBLE – John 14:9
“Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, “Show us the Father?”’”
The science project presentation went better than either of them expected. The class clapped. The teacher nodded with genuine approval. For a few minutes after the bell, Maya and Jordan stood by the windows, still processing the relief.
Then Tyler walked past with two other guys and tossed out, “Lucky break, I guess. God must have been in a good mood today… or whatever.”
Jordan’s half-smile faded. He waited until Tyler was out of earshot before speaking.
“People always say that, you know. ‘God works in mysterious ways.’ Like He’s random. One day He helps, next day He lets everything fall apart. Honestly… sometimes it feels true.”
Maya turned to face him fully. The hallway was thinning out, but she kept her voice low.
“That’s what I used to think too. That God was unpredictable. Like He changes the rules without warning. But He’s not mysterious at all.”
Jordan raised an eyebrow. “How can you say that after everything that went wrong with the project? The juice, the failed experiments, the pressure…?”
“Because Jesus showed us exactly what the Father is like,” Maya answered. “He said if you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father. Jesus wasn’t strange or unpredictable. He was consistent—loving, patient, clear. And the Bible says only good and perfect things come from God. The chaos, the fear, the things that try to crush us… those aren’t Him.”
She paused, then added, “When I started treating you differently last week, it wasn’t because I suddenly became nicer. It was because I decided to see you the way the Father sees you. Same with the words I spoke yesterday. Same with using the Name of Jesus over the project. None of that was random. God doesn’t do random.”
Jordan was quiet for a long moment. He looked out the window, then back at her.
“So you’re saying the bad stuff that happens… isn’t God teaching us lessons the hard way?”
“I’m saying the Father isn’t the one causing the grief. He’s the One who already made a way out of it. And He wants us to know Him—really know Him—through His Word, not through guesses or what people say when they’re angry.”
The bell for the next period rang. Jordan shifted his bag on his shoulder.
“I still have questions,” he admitted. “But… I get what you’re saying. He’s not trying to keep us in the dark.”
Maya nodded. “Exactly. He’s a Father who wants to be known.”
As they walked toward their next classes, the old tension between them felt lighter. The project crisis had passed, but something deeper was still unfolding—slowly, steadily, and not mysteriously at all.
ACT
Today, set ten minutes aside to read one chapter from any of the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John).
