December 2024
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. -John 17:1-2
In this passage of John’s Gospel, we find the beginning of the Garden Prayer where Jesus prayed for himself, his disciples, and the future of the Church.
In an interesting turn of phrase, Jesus prays that the Father would glorify Him, and that He might glorify the Father. To better understand this, we have to have a greater appreciation of what ‘glory’ or ‘glorify’ means. Of course it means to give praise and honor; it also is indicative of the weightiness of Truth!
It is Truth as Jesus testified to Philip “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me;”
Jesus made the case over and over throughout the Gospel record of his ‘one-ness’ with the Father. And his prayer in Chapter 17 to be glorified even as the Father is glorified means he is worthy of praise and worship as well; he is worthy of Glory!
In this season of Advent, let us remember the one who left Heaven for our salvation! The one who is the embodiment of Truth, Light and Life! Let us remember to give Him Glory!
Merry Christ-mas,
Pastor J.
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. -John 17:1-2
In this passage of John’s Gospel, we find the beginning of the Garden Prayer where Jesus prayed for himself, his disciples, and the future of the Church.
In an interesting turn of phrase, Jesus prays that the Father would glorify Him, and that He might glorify the Father. To better understand this, we have to have a greater appreciation of what ‘glory’ or ‘glorify’ means. Of course it means to give praise and honor; it also is indicative of the weightiness of Truth!
It is Truth as Jesus testified to Philip “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me;”
Jesus made the case over and over throughout the Gospel record of his ‘one-ness’ with the Father. And his prayer in Chapter 17 to be glorified even as the Father is glorified means he is worthy of praise and worship as well; he is worthy of Glory!
In this season of Advent, let us remember the one who left Heaven for our salvation! The one who is the embodiment of Truth, Light and Life! Let us remember to give Him Glory!
Merry Christ-mas,
Pastor J.