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Lunch meditation

Ate lunch at Seasons Asian Bistro, spending some time reading. Came across this passage, and it made me think back to what I was writing this morning.

update: I managed to delete my previous post. Now wasn’t that stupid.

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time. 28 Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
John 12:27-28

We love to talk about how Jesus dying on the cross shows God’s love for us. And indeed it does; see 1 John 3:1, among many others.

But was that it? Not at all. Jesus prayed for his Father to glorify his name. The replay came: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

What can we make of this? We are indeed to pinnacle of creation, made in God’s own image. God does indeed love us enough to sacrifice his son for us. But let us never lose sight of the central matter: God created us to bring him glory. Christ died to bring him glory.

Not to use, oh Lord, but to your name, be the glory.

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