"Glory Assured"

 "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." (John 17:5 KJV)

  "Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together." (Colossians 1:15-17 NLT)

 Here is what we need to know about the Son and the Father: They are One! As it is, those that do not believe that Jesus is God, have a really hard time believing that there is a Holy Trinity; it is just too hard for them to comprehend, so they don't even try to believe it. There is nothing that was created that was not created through the Son; and, if God has always existed and was not created by anything, then there had to be the Son with the Father, from the very beginning! 

 Now that we have settled that, we can deal with the title of this post. In my opinion, Jesus did not need to ask the Father to be glorified but was doing so for the sake of His disciples. In other words, the glory that He had before, is the same glory He will have after, it doesn't change; if anything, He just gains more and more glory! Throughout the Scriptures we see this manifested, as the Conquering King, the LORD of LORDS, and the KING of KINGS; the Christ, who gave it all, in order to redeem the world, to be able to take back that which was stollen! 

 There are so many examples of how He is glorified, over and over again; but in this case, the task He was about to allow, (and I mean that with all sincerity, He allowed himself to be punished for our sins,) would be the crowning moment, that the Father would glorify the Son, while the Son glorifies the Father, as the plan from the beginning of time is done! 

 There was no doubt in the glory to come, because that was the plan all along. Which is something that God has put upon my heart this morning, how we need to pray for everything, especially those things which we know and understand to be God's will! When we are doing anything that involves the work of the Lord, we need to present ourselves as His servant, acknowledge the fact that He is in control, and believe, by confession, that He is going to use all that we do for His glory. 

 Simply said, we are to trust and believe! We must trust that He will be with us, and that no matter what, we will be with Him, even though death, we believe that it will be so...

"For the Scriptures say, "You must be holy because I am holy." And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as "foreigners in the land." For you know that God pain a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose him as your ransom long before the world began, but he has now revealed him to you in these last days." (1 Peter 1:16-20 NLT)