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Glorified

Jesus is making an important point.

The Gospel of John: John 13.29-38

Read and meditate on John 13.31, 32.
“glorified…glorified…glorified…glorify…glorify…” Do you think Jesus was trying to make a point here?

                                                31So then,
when he had gone out, Jesus said to them,
“The Son of Man is glorified; in Him
God, too, is glorified. 31If God in Him
is glorified, then God as well in Him
will glorify Himself, and glorify
the Son of Man at once.”
 

- John 13.31, 32

Reflect
1.  John has emphasized the glory of God in Christ from the beginning of his gospel (cf. Jn. 1.14). The hour for Jesus to be glorified has now arrived, and the glorifying has already begun. When you think of the glory of God, or of God being glorified, or of glorifying God, what comes to mind? What does this mean? Complete this prayer: Lord, You have called me to Your Kingdom and glory (1 Thess. 1.12), and to live for Your glory in all things (1 Cor. 10.31). So today, Lord…

2.  The Old Testament helps us to understand the glory of God, and why it matters so much. The Hebrew word for glory, chaved, means something like “to be heavy.” Think of an instance of the glory of God as it appeared in the Old Testament (e.g., Ex. 3.1-6; Is. 6.1-13; 2 Chron. 7.1-3; Ps. 19.1-4; or cf. Rev. 1.9-20). What is happening when God is being glorified? How do people respond? Why? I want to know You in Your glory, O Lord, so that…

3.  Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified…” In what sense? How was the presence of God in glory evident in Jesus at that moment (“immediately”) in the upper room? Do the disciples seem to have been aware that He was being glorified? Jesus announced that He was now glorified. Could the disciples have missed it? Do you think we miss it sometimes, when the glory of God is on display? Explain. Open my eyes, Lord, to see Your glory wherever it pleases you to reveal it, so that…

4.  The glory of God is always being revealed (Ps. 19.1-4; Rom. 1.18-21). People just aren’t paying attention. God’s project is not simply to reveal His glory, but to cause the knowledge of His glory to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2.14). From Jesus’ remarks in verses 31 and 32, it’s clear that He is something like the epicenter, vortex, or touchstone of the glory of God. What is Jesus’ role in God’s project? What is ours? Let Christ rule in my soul, and live through my words and deeds, O Lord, that I might glorify You in…

5.  In announcing His glory to His disciples, Jesus, in effect, brought them into His glory. He would do so more fully in coming days. But here He seems to have extended to them a privilege which is also extended to us, who with the disciples have been called to the Kingdom and glory of God (1 Thess. 2.12). Meditate on Proverbs 25.2. As this applies to the glory of God, what does this calling entail? What are we to do? Bring together into one prayer the prayers you wrote for questions 1-4.

Summary
“At the moment when Judas arose to betray him, he signified as present the glory that he would obtain after his passion through the resurrection, but he assigned to the future the glory with which God would glorify him with himself. The glory of God is seen in him in the power of the resurrection. But he himself, after his state of humiliation, will be taken eternally into the glory of God, that is, into God, the all in all.” Hilary of Poitiers (315-367 AD)

“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.” What is involved in this being true of every now of your life?

Closing Prayer
Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults.
Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

Psalm 19.12-14

Psalm 19.9-14 (St. Christopher: Beneath the Cross of Jesus)
The fear of God is cleansing, forever shall it last.
His judgments all are true and just, by righteousness held fast.
O seek them more than gold most fine, than honey find them sweet;
Be warned by every word and line; be blest with joy complete.

Who, Lord, can know his errors? O keep sin far from me!
Let evil rule not in my soul that I may blameless be.
O let my thoughts, let all my words, before Your glorious sight
Be pleasing to You, gracious Lord, acceptable and right!

T. M. Moore

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Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. All psalms for singing adapted from The Ailbe Psalter. All quotations from Church Fathers from Ancient Christian Commentary Series IV a and b: John, edited by Joel C. Elowsky, General Editor Thomas C. Oden (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006. Verse translation of John by T. M. Moore.

T.M. Moore

T. M. Moore is principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He and his wife, Susie, make their home in the Champlain Valley of Vermont.
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