In today’s Gospel, John 17: 20-26, Jesus says to His Father,
and ours: “…they [you and I] are your gift
to me.” Hear Jesus saying to you: “You
are the Father’s gift to me.” All of us,
young and old, married or unmarried, single or divorced, lesbian or homosexual,
heterosexual or transsexual, white or black, Hispanic or Asian, Native American
or African American or any other nationality, homeless or sheltered, mentally
or physically ill, want to hear someone say to us: you are a gift to me. Every
husband and wife wants to hear that from each other. In
today’s Gospel, it is Jesus saying to each one of us: You are a gift to me from
my Father. Each person, no matter how
ugly we may think we are or we may think another is: Jesus says “You are a gift to Me from my Father.” Jesus prays to the Father that we may “all be
one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us.” What
a prayer! And it will not go
unanswered! And again He prays: “…may
they be brought to perfection as one,
that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you
loved me.” Perfection will be ours and
will be culminated in eternity. We are on the road, through Christ Jesus, that
leads us to perfection in Him, through Him, and with Him. What a glorious heritage, bought at the price
of Jesus death, resurrection and ascension into heaven, from whence the Spirit
of God is sent to dwell within each of us!
Praise God!
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