Matthew 11:27 NASB95
All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
The Father relates to us in Christ. He sees us as individual persons, but he sees us as a person in union with Jesus. Someone has said, “The gospel is the incredible realization that Jesus is not only God coming to rescue us but is also God coming to be man for us.” We are new creations only because we are in Christ, and God the Father and the Holy Spirit commune with us through who we are as new creations. Paul said that “Christ is our life,” and that is the identity through which the Father and the Holy Spirit see us.
Also, no one knows the Father except the Son, and therefore, being in Christ, we get to participate in the intimacy Jesus shares with our heavenly Father. We get to know God through Christ. Jesus said that he was “the door” and that no one would enter except through him. When we become Christians, we don’t start off at a distance from God, trying to work our way over the years towards a place of greater intimacy. Instead, we start off face-to-face with God the Father because wherever Christ is, we are. In John 14:2 – 3, Jesus said, “In my Father’s house are many abiding places; if there were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself (union with Him), that where I am there, you may be also.” When Jesus went to the Cross, He prepared a place for us in union with Him so that wherever he is, we are there in Him. It’s easy to think about wherever we are there he is because he lives in us, but when we talk about union, we also need to think about wherever he is we are also. Where He is in relationship to the Father, we are. Because we are in Him, we get to know intimately and experientially God the Father because it is only the Son who knows the Father. His relationship is our relationship. Living from Christ; not for Christ.