Christ had the perfect consciousness of His solitariness, in connection with divine glory. “No one knows Me but the Father.” “I know who I am.” A certain solitude belongs to Him, and most blessed that it is so. There is only one Messiah, only one Son, and He knew it. He never forgets who He is, nor ever acts short of what He is, as the only-begotten of the Father. Again He says, “Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” Who could reveal the Father save the Son? Part of the glory of Christ is seen in the use He would make of this power, and the blessedness of His knowledge which gives Him the exclusive power and right to reveal the Father. He would teach whom He would to know Him; that is His prerogative.

“All things have been delivered to Me by My Father.” What was Christ’s thought in connection with this universal power? “I have got the secret of the Father, I have power to reveal Him, I will look out for some to whom the Father can be revealed.” That is the thought of Christ’s heart, and doesn’t this tell out a whole volume of His character?

What a contrast to ourselves: if we had all things in our power, what would we do with them all? Would we not want some fragment for self? With Christ, it is only “My Father”: all is in connection with Him.