John 17:1-5
If your day has been a downer, full of disappointment or
even despair run to John 17 and read our High Priestly prayer. I am often needing to be reminded that Jesus
is making intercession for me, you can go to Hebrews 7:25 or Romans 8:34, where
we are reminded of this.
Jesus’ prayer to the Father is somewhat like Jesus friending
us on Face Book, we were included in on the most private and intimate of
moments. Looking at the first five
verses, “When
Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the
hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have
given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you
have given him. And this is eternal
life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have
sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me
to do. And now, Father, glorify me in
your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.”
(John 17:3-5 ESV)
As a “time critter” our life is centered in time, in
minutes, hours, days, months, and years, but Jesus is talking to the Father
about things that happen outside of our time dimension. When reading the Bible, it requires one to grasp
that God created all things for His purpose, even time. We come to understand that “faith” requires
the time dimension, and when faith is no longer needed, time will cease to
be. It is also important to understand
that God is not time-dimensional, but you and I are. My friends Bill and Anabel Gillham taught
this to me and showed me a simple time line that has help me.
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Birth First Haircut Salvation Today Death
That is a very simple time line of life on
planet earth and your’s and mine will have many things that go between the “B”
and the “D”, but at somepoint we must all put the “S” in our time line, or
eternity will also be void of God.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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