FIRE OF THE LORD

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Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
John 17:1‭, ‬22 LSB

¶The special thing God did with Moses in revealing His glory on Mount Sinai was transformative. Here now Jesus stands between the Father and His own asking Him to manifest His glory. This is what John the Apostle says He beheld in Christ, straight from the Father, shed for the light of the world. Jesus's prayer is that in Him and around Him we would get glimmering glimpses into the new heaven and new earth that He came to inaugurate. The glory which we are being invited to behold is of a type that is overwhelming, even intimidating. The normal human response to it is to fall down on our faces. It's just a part of the "born again" process, without which we are unable to see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). But with perfect love the Son leads us on into the presence of the Father, overcoming our fear.

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