Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Day 26 – John 17:6-10
Categories: Don’s Daily Devotions
Read John 17:6-10:
V6: He has made God known to His disciples ( to “know His Name” is to know Him as He is, His true identity – think of Moses in Exodus 3:13-14.). They are the ones His Father has given Him – the sovereign grace of God in salvation – and they have received and kept ( obeyed ) God’s word through His Son – oh, not perfectly, but by that grace it is true of them. May it be true of us too.
V7: The disciples now know that all Jesus says and does is from the Father, in the full authority of God.
V8: He has given them His Father’s truth, and now they truly know and believe Jesus has come from the Father, with whom He is One. ( The application in part of what Jesus has taught in these great chapters.)
V9: So He is praying not for the unbelieving world, but for His people, whom God has given Him. In v.6-19, for these first disciples, who have been with Him in His earthly ministry. In the full shadow of the cross, Jesus is concerned to pray most for them, not for Himself.
V10: Again, to belong to Christ is to belong to the Father. How is He glorified in them? Surely in the changed lives they will lead as His redeemed people, and in bringing them safe to glory – the full salvation won on the cross for all His people.