Tuesday, July 1, 2025

John 17: glorify the Son

Jesus is about to be crucified. He asks the Lord to show the splendor of his son:

1-5 Jesus said these things. Then, raising his eyes in prayer, he said:
Father, it’s time.
Display the bright splendor of your Son
So the Son in turn may show your bright splendor.
You put him in charge of everything human
So he might give real and eternal life to all in his care.
And this is the real and eternal life:
That they know you,
The one and only true God,
And Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
I glorified you on earth
By completing down to the last detail
What you assigned me to do.
And now, Father, glorify me with your very own splendor,
The very splendor I had in your presence
Before there was a world.

How Jesus is to be glorified?
Is it about crucifixion or resurrection? Is it about both?
Jesus completed his mission, what he had to do. Now, he will be fully in the Lord's hand.
In his last words, he prays for his disciples:

13 But now I am coming to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
20 “I am not asking on behalf of these alone, but also for those who believe in Me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

I was born alone and I lived alone most of my life. Through Jesus, I have joy because now I live with the Lord. I give glory to the Son who purchased with his blood.