24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
What does Jesus want in this text? What does He desire? Here we see that Jesus desires a people to see His glory. And the glory He wants them to see is the glory that God gave to His Son before the incarnation.
The Hebrew concept of glory is related to the word “weight” or “value.” And we can relate to this idea can’t we. What we give weight to in our lives is what we give value to. Say if some of us value the Chicago Bears we spend time watching them, or we celebrate them, we spend money to watch them in person or buy shirts with their logo. Our close friends might be those who do the same. These are some of the ways we give weight or value things in our lives.
What Jesus is saying here as He has before, is that God the Father values, and gives weight to, glorifies His Son and has since before the creation of the world in eternity past. He loves His Son with and infinite love. And Jesus is praying that we see that love God has. He prays that we see the value God has for His Son. This is what it means to see and behold the Glory of Christ. And this is what Jesus desires for here.
And oh how glad I am that Jesus prayed for this. My desires need to be tuned to His own because what I want naturally is not to see the glory of Christ. We need to know this is what Christ wanted so that we too would pray and desire to see His glory. And for that to happen we need to be with Him where He is. Now we behold Jesus and experience His presence through faith. We behold His glory in the Word with the eyes of the heart and are transformed and sanctified (cf. 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 1:15–18; 1 Peter 1:8)
John 17:24
John 17:24
24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
What does Jesus want in this text? What does He desire? Here we see that Jesus desires a people to see His glory. And the glory He wants them to see is the glory that God gave to His Son before the incarnation.
The Hebrew concept of glory is related to the word “weight” or “value.” And we can relate to this idea can’t we. What we give weight to in our lives is what we give value to. Say if some of us value the Chicago Bears we spend time watching them, or we celebrate them, we spend money to watch them in person or buy shirts with their logo. Our close friends might be those who do the same. These are some of the ways we give weight or value things in our lives.
What Jesus is saying here as He has before, is that God the Father values, and gives weight to, glorifies His Son and has since before the creation of the world in eternity past. He loves His Son with and infinite love. And Jesus is praying that we see that love God has. He prays that we see the value God has for His Son. This is what it means to see and behold the Glory of Christ. And this is what Jesus desires for here.
And oh how glad I am that Jesus prayed for this. My desires need to be tuned to His own because what I want naturally is not to see the glory of Christ. We need to know this is what Christ wanted so that we too would pray and desire to see His glory. And for that to happen we need to be with Him where He is. Now we behold Jesus and experience His presence through faith. We behold His glory in the Word with the eyes of the heart and are transformed and sanctified (cf. 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 1:15–18; 1 Peter 1:8)