John 17:6-19
Let’s continue to pray for Jim and Marty.
“Notice what you notice.” Jesus’ “High Priestly Prayer”, in three readings… Now they know that everything that You have given Me is from You. For I have given them the words that You gave Me… (vv. 7-8a) I read this first verse and wondered at the phrase, everything that You have given Me. What had the Father given Jesus? My first thought was that the Father gave Jesus the power to do the miracles that He did. Then I read on and saw that the Father had also given Jesus the words that He spoke. Power and words. Presumably power and words are available to us. We know about words being given to us: …do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say. (Luke 12:11b-12) I dare say that most of us have already experienced “Holy Spirit words” being given to us. But what about power? Let me just leave it at that…!
All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. (v. 10) Jesus has already said of His disciples in earlier verses that the Father had given His disciples to Him: Yours they were, and you gave them to me. (v. 6b) So when He says “All mine are yours…”, He is speaking of His disciples. Then when He says I am glorified in them, the “them” is referring back to His disciples. That is, Jesus is glorified in whatever His disciples do. Regularly I have been suggesting that much of what Jesus said of and to His disciples carries forward to us. Hence a conclusion that Jesus is glorified in whatever we do. So what are we doing?
Slava Bohu!
Good question, Fred. What are we doing that glorifies God?