They May Have Joy Made Full…
When we pray it’s easy to simply ask for something, it is in the conversational prayer is where it becomes more of a challenge, at least up until now.
After reading John 17 this morning the prayer that Jesus Christ offers is so beautiful, so in-depth and open with our Father it shows a way for us to have a conversation instead of merely asking for this or seeking that. Just laying bare, for the world to see and hear our love for God and our love for one another. We would all do well to focus on this type of prayer instead of the “thank You” or the “please forgive” or “send money” prayers.
But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. ~ John 17:13-19 NASB95
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Jesus is not asking for anything He is making statements about how we should be and about what is has done in the name of the Father. Jesus is simply giving our Father the glory and confessing what has been done. This is developing a deep, deep relationship with God. This is a picture of a child coming to His Father and telling Him of the events of the day. Sharing with Him that He has fulfilled the task His Father ask of Him.
Either the Scripture is the divine Word of God teaching us how to live and how to be a reflection of Him, or it’s nothing more than a historical account of events.
