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John 17 marks the end of the famous Last Supper, and at the start of John 18 we see Jesus headed off to the garden of Gethsemane. After pouring words of truth and encouragement into His disciples, Jesus ended the meal with a lengthy prayer. I love that Jesus not only took time to give a lot of words to His disciples; He gave a lot of words to His Father, too.
After praying for Himself, Jesus transitioned to a prayer of petition on behalf of His disciples. How would His followers survive the days, weeks, months, and years to come? How would they live forward in a world without the everyday, physical presence of Jesus in their lives? Jesus prayed the answer.
Jesus knew that the coming events would shake the disciples to their core and shatter their immediate sense ofin the world. Even the ascension—with the resurrected, victorious Jesus going back to heaven to be with His Father—would have felt like such a deep loss to them, as we considered yesterday. Jesus knew they would need each other more than ever in the years to come. And they would not only need each other, they would be strong, healthy, and unified in their gospel mission.
I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word. May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me. in the Bible! On that special night, the very night of the famous Last Supper, Jesus was thinking about us, about all of the people who would believe in Him because of the faithfulness of His disciples and the faithfulness of God to answer this prayer.
Little did we know that we would head home from Israel and into the most difficult year in our community’s history together. Three weeks after we returned home, a family suddenly lost their twenty-one-year-old son. It shattered us. We came home from Israel and entered the agony together. I have never known such joy and such pain so close together like that.
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