The High Priestly Prayer: Part One

Jesus lifts His eyes to heaven in the presence of His disciples but more so in the presence of His Father. Of all the prayers of Jesus, this one we are all privy to. At the eve of the cross, before He goes back to the Father Christ will pray for Himself, His disciples, and the future disciples who have yet to be born or believe. Here Christ is supremely out for His own glory. These verses are highly trinitarian and also show the deity of Christ is essential to knowing God. The Son shares in the glory of the Father in a way divinely unique. Jesus also possesses authority over all flesh in the matters of eternal life and judgment; another divine attribute. Christ defines eternal life as intimately knowing the Father and Son. This will only elevate for the believer as we reach God's presence in heaven. Jesus affirms He has completed the work assigned to Him by the Father in His incarnation. The cross will then result in Him crying, "It is finished!" And finally, Jesus has glorified the Father and received glory Himself while on earth in His incarnation but He now desires to return to the glory that He possessed with the Father before the world had being; that is, eternity past. His glory in His humanity and divinity compounds into the ultimate and totally glory of the Savior. The glory that will result in every knee bowing to Him in heaven, on the earth, or under the earth and every tongue confessing He is LORD.