“Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you….I
glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now
glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the
world began,” we read in today’s Gospel.
In Acts 20: 17-27, Paul also confidently states his faithfulness to
carrying out God’s will. He says: “I
served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me
because of the plots” of those who opposed my teaching them about Jesus. I…earnestly
bore witness…to [my]faith” in Christ Jesus. There, in a nutshell, is our calling as
baptized Christians. Hopefully at the
end of our lives, we, too, will be able to say to our Creator: “I glorified you
on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now glorify me,
Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.” Our work is no different than the Lord’s was, namely,
to “reveal…[God’s] name to those whom…[God
gives to us] and to give to others what God has given to us: forgiveness, love,
confidence, strength, hope, faith in Christ Jesus. Also, our work is the same as that which the
Lord gave Paul to do, namely, to serve “the Lord with all humility and to bear
witness to our faith in Christ Jesus amid the tears and trials” that are part
of life here on earth. May you and I
rise to the occasion to be true disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ so that
others may know, as they did about Jesus, that we come from God and will be
returning to God at the end of our lives.
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