Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17Ravenio Books, 13 mei 2014 THIS chapter is emphatically the Lord’s prayer. That which we commonly call the Lord’s prayer He taught His disciples, but did not use Himself. The petition, “Forgive us our trespasses,” could never have been uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ. This prayer, on the other hand, is His own—His disciples were not invited to unite in it; it was a prayer they did not and could not utter. Evidently the Lord spake so as to be heard, and the disciples listened. The Holy Ghost has provided that not one petition should be lost to the church of God. We often find our Lord teaching His disciples to pray, and we read of Him spending even whole nights in prayer; but we never find Him praying with His disciples. Indeed, there would seem to be something incongruous in Christ kneeling down with His disciples for prayer; there must always have been something peculiar in His petitions. At this time His work on earth was well-nigh ended: nothing remained for Him but to die: “I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.” (v. 4.) The Last Supper was over. The Lord had dispensed to His disciples the broken bread and poured-out wine, memorials of His dying love; He had expressed to them His desire, that in remembrance of Him, they should often gather together and thus show forth His death in this illustration and their union with Himself and with each other, until His return to them in glory. He had washed their feet; He had comforted them; He had opened His whole heart to them. He now opens it for them to Him before whom “all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid;” and having poured out His soul into the ear, and into the bosom of God, He went forth into Gethsemane. May God the Spirit be with us and give unction and understanding to our hearts, while we meditate on His most precious prayer. |
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... earth, and hell, for their benefit. The prayer means nothing less than that; God only knows how much more it means. “Glorify Thy Son.” Our blessed Lord was now in His appeal entering into the very heart of God with all the travail.
Marcus Rainsford. into the very heart of God with all the travail He had long ago purposed and undertaken to endure for us men and our salvation. In John xii. 27, 28, we have His anticipation of that hour: “Now is My soul troubled; and ...
... heart you cannot restrain; but our glorious Christ can: “Thou hast given Him power over all flesh.” Neither the flesh without, though in league with “principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual ...
... heart to His Father; His petitions are wonderful; first for Himself, and then for “those whom Thou hast given Me.” As Aaron appeared before the Lord in the holy place, with the names, and circumstances, and conditions of Israel borne ...
... heart, and all that Thou didst require of Me for the accomplishing of the salvation of Thy people given to Me. I have opened all Thine heart, I have expressed Thine eternal and everlasting love to poor sinners; I have manifested Thy ...