Who is Jesus, really? That's the question we've been thinking about this week on Things

Unseen. And we've narrowed our focus to get a handle on the answer by reflecting on Simon

Peter's answer to Jesus' question, who do you say I am? Remember,

the first part of his answer was, you are the Christ. The second part of his answer was,

you are the son of the living God. That's a striking description of God, isn't it? The living God.

It's reminiscent of the divine name revealed to Moses, I am who I am, the one who is all life in himself and of himself.

And so Peter makes this monumental confession. It's staggering really. You are the son of the living God. Yesterday I suggested that when

Peter said you are the Christ, it may not have been a sudden thought, even if it was the first time

he actually said it out loud. And the same may also be true of you are the son of the living God.

Because his brother Andrew may well have been at Jesus baptism and told them of the voice that spoke from heaven.

You are my beloved son.

Maybe Peter had been thinking about that for months.

But even if he had, he needed to think even more deeply about it, because soon on the

Mount of Transfiguration, he would hear for himself the very same voice saying, this is my

beloved son, with whom I'm well pleased, listen to him."

It's really a reminder to us that it takes time for it to sink in who our Lord Jesus Christ

really is.

He is the Son of God.

That's the testimony of the voice from heaven. It's the testimony of Simon Peter. It's the testimony of the voice from heaven.

It's the testimony of Simon Peter.

It's the testimony of the Apostle Paul who once denied and rejected it.

It's the testimony of the Gospel's.

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