When Jesus was accused of making himself equal to God, Jesus didn’t back down.  In fact, he claimed to be God’s unique Son, self-existent without being created, who deserved to be worshipped like God, with power to give life like God, and entrusted to judge the world.  These claims would be preposterous unless he was who he claimed to be.

Yet, at the same time, he said he saw what the father did and submitted to the father.  Even though he was equal to God, he lowered himself and submitted himself to the father.

The implications: (1) If you want to see who God is like, look at Jesus.  Jesus is the clearest revelation of who God is.  You must align your view of God to that of Jesus, who came down, loved us, and gave himself for us to reconcile us to a relationship with God through him.  (2) When you see who Jesus is and what he is doing, you will know what to do.  Jesus is reconciling broken people to a relationship with himself and building a community of people he calls the church, or his bride, to love one another as he has loved us, and to love the world as he has loved the world.