We Are Glorified So That We May Gloryify

When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify and extol and honor and magnify You. John 17:1

Our prayers should resemble this one of Jesus’, because the only way that we will ever be able to boldly glorify and testify of our Father on this earth, is by Him glorifying us with Himself as He does what is needed through us.

That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. John 17:21

Now here is the great Truth about this prayer request, it’s already answered for us! It’s answered for us because we now have the power of our Father within us through our baptism with His Holy Spirit. We now have the exact Spirit of God, not a Spirit that is like God’s, but His actual Spirit within us, Who is teaching us all things, Who is strengthening us in the power of God’s might, and Who is causing us to know Who our Father is and who we are in Him.

Think about it, we actually now are one with God’s Spirit, He now abides within us! We now have the exact same glory that Jesus has to be used to magnify and exalt and honor our Father. We now have the same power that Jesus has to seek first the Kingdom of God and to ever live to serve the world with perfect Love. We are as God is, even while we are on this earth, because we now have God’s Spirit, and He is, as He is, through us even while we are on this earth! Through the glorious power of Christ we are now one with God, even as Jesus is One with God. We are now able to be used to serve the Kingdom as our Lord and Savior Jesus is used to serve the Kingdom! The weak have been made strong in the power of God’s glorious might! We have been glorified with the fullness of our Father so that the world may be able to believe that Jesus is the Christ. We have been glorified so that we may glorify.

We are blessed this day, even the least of us is blessed, with the absolute eternal and omnipotent glory of God!

Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Matthew 11:11