Daily Bread

John 17:22 - "And I have given them the glory that you have given me so that they may be one just as we are one."

John reveals many things specific to the glory that Jesus had received from the Father. He begins with the glory that they beheld in Him "as the glory of an only begotten from the Father full of grace and truth" (1:14). When Jesus turned the water into wine in Cana of Galilee He was manifesting His glory (2:11). When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead it was for the purpose of revealing the glory of God that was in Him (11:4). Jesus was given the Spirit without measure to empower Him to reveal the Father's glory (3:34). The glory that Father gave to Jesus, Jesus has given us as a free gift: the glory of sonship through the new birth and the glory of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit which includes the glory to both speak the words of the Father and do the works of Jesus and even greater works. It is through this glory that the child of God is made one with the Father and with His Son. Paul also revealed to the saints in Corinth that the glory of Jesus was in them when he said, "But we all, with an unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory - even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18).

Blessings,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org