The Apostles were truly a chosen people.\u00c2\u00a0 For, as we have just heard Jesus say in the Gospel,\u00c2\u00a0 “They are your gift to me”; and “I have given them the glory you gave me”.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow!\u00c2\u00a0 How special is that.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
But you know, it occurs to me that the words in the Gospel are not just directed to the Apostles.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a very narrow way of taking this Gospel.\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed, let’s ponder for a moment what this Gospel means if all of us, yes you and I, are the gift of which Jesus speaks.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, Jesus says he is praying not only for these, meaning the Apostles, but also, and I quote, \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0for “those who will believe in me through their word”.\u00c2\u00a0 That is us- all of us here today who are believers.\u00c2\u00a0 And so, all of us can take great comfort in the prayer that Jesus says for his people-\u00c2\u00a0 first, that we may all be one.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, all of us are one, and just as you would want to be included in that number so are all those other brothers who are believers who are different from us.\u00c2\u00a0 They are all part of the one.\u00c2\u00a0 Second, that he has given us the glory he has- everlasting life.\u00c2\u00a0 We may not know what it is like, but we can take great joy knowing that it is certain for those who believe.\u00c2\u00a0 Third, that Jesus wants us to be where he is.\u00c2\u00a0 This is also a great comfort, knowing that Jesus wants us in Heaven with him.\u00c2\u00a0 And lastly, and certainly not the least- that, and I quote, “the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them”.\u00c2\u00a0 And considering that God is Love.\u00c2\u00a0 That is quite something.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00c2\u00a0 Thursday of 7th Week of Easter Acts 22: 30, 23: 6-11; John 17: 20-26 Dc. Larry Brockman The Apostles were truly a chosen people.\u00c2\u00a0 For, as we have just heard Jesus say in the Gospel,\u00c2\u00a0 “They are your gift to me”; and “I have given them the glory you gave me”.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow!\u00c2\u00a0 How special […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}