Glory be to God

Call to prayer

Title: Glory be to God

By: Michael Ntow

Date: 07/12/21

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
JOHN 17:4

The coming of the Holy Spirit is part of this great and vital plan of salvation, and it is, of course, one of the most wonderful aspects of all. In the council in eternity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit spoke together and planned the salvation of man.  The Father stated the great scheme, and the Son accepted the decision that He should be the One to carry out the plan; and then it was equally decided that the Holy Spirit should complete what the Son had done for mankind.

This is what is sometimes called “the economy of the Trinity,” the division of the work between the three Persons, and it is something that appears very clearly throughout the Scriptures. It appears, for example, in the very beginning, in Genesis, where we are shown how the creation itself was the work of the Trinity: “In the beginning God . . .” Then we are told that “the Spirit of God moved . . .” Everything was made through the Word, but in a sense the agency was still the Spirit.

The Father sends the Son, and the great business of the Son is to glorify the Father. He says, “I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do” (John 17:4). There is a sense in which the Lord Jesus Christ never glorified Himself. That is why He laid aside His glory, and why He was not born in a king’s palace but in a stable. That, too, is why He took upon Himself the form of a servant; it was all to glorify the Father. All His life as a man was in a sense lived just in this way, in order that all the glory and power might be to God the Father.

A thought to ponder 

Our Lord lived so that all the glory and power might be to God the Father.

Prayer point

Let’s pray for the grace to not live for ourselves but live by the faith and knowledge of the Son of God who loved us and gave up Himself for us.

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