Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
—Ephesians 1:3, emphasis added 

Note where the blessing is coming from. Paul says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” What am I pointing out? Many Christians make Jesus the end of everything. They pray to Jesus. They sing to Jesus. They preach about Jesus. And obviously, we should. But the problem is they have left out God the Father. Yet Yeshua said, “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven.’” Jesus was always living unto the Father.

Oftentimes our walk is only focused on Jesus. But Jesus is not the end. The Father is the end. Jesus is the way, but the Father is the destination. Some of us have made the way the destination, but the way is the path to the destination, who is the Father. 

Please don’t misunderstand. I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh, that the Father was in Jesus and Jesus is in the Father. But Jesus came to bring us to the Father. This is why Yeshua said, “No one comes to the Father but through Me.”So if you find yourself always praying to Jesus, recognize that something is off in your heart’s understanding of the Godhead. Remember, beloved one, it all comes from the Father—“for from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.”

Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider, Entering His Presence (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2023), Used by permission.