Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with
the glory which I had with You before the world was (John 17:5).
I think it is quite clear that the Lord Jesus
carried in His heart a great longing and a prayer for the glory that He once
had. This is where I think John touches this matter very closely. In the
seventeenth chapter of his gospel, he records that great prayer of the Lord
Jesus: "Father, glorify Thou Me with the glory which I had with Thee
before the world was" (vs. 5). That opens a window and lets us see that
the Lord Jesus had a consciousness of His eternal glory past. He carried it
with Him; He knew about it – marvelous thought! – and that the consciousness of
that former glory was ever prompting Him to pray toward, long toward, the day
when He would return to it and it would return to Him. "Father, glorify
Thou Me with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was."
The Mount of Transfiguration had become an answer
to His heart's prayer and cry and longing – at least a touch of it. A fleeting
touch, but for Him it was one of those things which perhaps you know a little
about in your Christian life. The Lord just does something – it passes, but you
know by it that you have been heard; you know that there is sympathy in the Father's
heart for your need and situation. It may only last for a day, or a night, for
an hour, or for a little while, and then pass, because the end of the road is
not yet; the eternal glory has not yet come; but the touch by the way is
something that carries us on. We know the Lord has heard; we know the Lord has
taken account of that inner cry and longing, and has given us a token of His
sympathy. It was like that with the Lord Jesus – the answer to His own cry.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Men Whose Eyes
Have Seen the King - Chapter 1
Photograph by Kristopher Rowe.
Photograph by Kristopher Rowe.
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