“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you . . . I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. . . . I am glorified in them” (John 17:1, 4, 10). When Jesus went to pray, when he went to meet and plead with his father before facing death, one word fell off his lips over and over again. He prayed for God’s glory. He longed for it. He said he had spent his life on earth building and displaying it. Nothing mattered more to Jesus before he died than God showing himself through him and through us.
