Jesus Prays

“After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: 
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.  
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.  
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.  
I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.  
And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.” 
John 17:1-5

In the above prayer Jesus makes clear that he is indeed God’s son and that his purpose in coming to earth was to glorify the father. That God has granted Jesus the authority over all people that he might give eternal life to them.
He makes it clear what eternal life is when he says,
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
It is important that we know God personally. That we enter into a personal relationship with God by accepting the sacrifice of Jesus.
Jesus states in this prayer that he was with God before the world began, and he asks to be restored to that position. A position to which he was restored after his death resurrection and ascension, where he rose to sit at the right hand of the Father.
We to can have the opportunity to enter into the very presence of God as his children. Johns gospel stating,
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—  children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” 
                         John 1:12,13 
That is the amazing thing about Christianity, it claims we can become children of God simply by accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
In Jesus, God reached down to his creation. To mankind and offered us the free gift of eternal life by simply accepting Jesus into our hearts and lives.
It is a decision each individual can only make for themselves no one can make it for them.
Just because you are born of Christian parents does not mean you are Christian. One must make that decision for ones self when one fully understands what they are doing.
Will you dear reader give you’re life to Christ this day?
Think about it.
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