Jesus prayed for us – those who have come to know Him through His disciples and their witness – prayed that we would all be one in Him and with one another. Jesus shares the divine glory God gave to Him with His disciples and thereby allows us, as disciples of Christ, to share in divine glory through Him. Through His grace we receive glory! What a gift. We are called in this prayer, as His disciples, to be a testimony to Jesus and his love to a lost world. We are called to be one with Jesus, and in being one with Him to be united with His Father and with other believers — all through our union with Jesus. He fills each of us with His love and presence while we live with Him here on earth. We are called to provide living proof of God’s mercy, love and truth – to be a living testimony of God’s love—so that all may know this love. This is the gracious God we are called to give glory to and to fully enjoy forever.
I’m praying not only for them but also for those who will believe in me because of them and their witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind—just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, so they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me. The same glory you gave me, I gave them, so they’ll be as unified and together as we are—I in them and you in me. Then they’ll be mature in this oneness, and give the godless world evidence that you’ve sent me and loved them in the same way you’ve loved me. Father, I want those you gave me to be with me, right where I am, so they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me, having loved me long before there ever was a world. Righteous Father, the world has never known you, but I have known you, and these disciples know that you sent me on this mission. I have made your very being known to them— who you are and what you do—and continue to make it known, so that your love for me might be in them exactly as I am in them. [John 17:21-24 (The Message)]
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