DAY 303 Read John 17; Psalms 17; 69; 86; 87; 88.
Today's reading: We have the privilege of "listening" as our wonderful Saviour prays for us. We also read a few of the psalms that Jesus may have sung with His disciples--some containing Messianic prophecies.
Memory gem: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth" (John 17:17).
Thought for today:
The seventeenth chapter of John contains Jesus' great prayer, His prayer as High Priest. Here we find some wonderful, wonderful things. Jesus was praying just before He died. When a person is praying his last prayer on earth, and he knows it, it is a very solemn thing. I have heard people pray their last prayer when they knew they were dying. This is Jesus' last prayer for His people, this great prayer in the seventeenth chapter of John.
Here we have this incomparable high-priestly prayer of Jesus in which He asks for many things for His people. He asks that we might be one. You know, it is a shame to find Christian people broken up into cliques--warring, antagonistic groups. It is a terrible thing for a church to have divisions in it because somebody wasn't elected to be deacon, because somebody said something about somebody else. Those things are always going to happen, and if we do not have enough Christianity to have love for God and for unlovely people and to get along smoothly in those experiences, we are in great spiritual need. We need to pray more for each other.
Jesus prayed for His people, that they might be kept faithful, kept from evil. That was a wonderful prayer, and it included us today. It was a prayer to keep His people from getting into wrong things, to keep us from getting so involved in business that we lose our hope and faith. Jesus prayed for all that. And He prayed that His people might live for God, carry out their mission, and go into all the world and give the gospel. He prayed that they might eventually be with Him where He is going to be.
Today's reading: We have the privilege of "listening" as our wonderful Saviour prays for us. We also read a few of the psalms that Jesus may have sung with His disciples--some containing Messianic prophecies.
Memory gem: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth" (John 17:17).
Thought for today:
The seventeenth chapter of John contains Jesus' great prayer, His prayer as High Priest. Here we find some wonderful, wonderful things. Jesus was praying just before He died. When a person is praying his last prayer on earth, and he knows it, it is a very solemn thing. I have heard people pray their last prayer when they knew they were dying. This is Jesus' last prayer for His people, this great prayer in the seventeenth chapter of John.
Here we have this incomparable high-priestly prayer of Jesus in which He asks for many things for His people. He asks that we might be one. You know, it is a shame to find Christian people broken up into cliques--warring, antagonistic groups. It is a terrible thing for a church to have divisions in it because somebody wasn't elected to be deacon, because somebody said something about somebody else. Those things are always going to happen, and if we do not have enough Christianity to have love for God and for unlovely people and to get along smoothly in those experiences, we are in great spiritual need. We need to pray more for each other.
Jesus prayed for His people, that they might be kept faithful, kept from evil. That was a wonderful prayer, and it included us today. It was a prayer to keep His people from getting into wrong things, to keep us from getting so involved in business that we lose our hope and faith. Jesus prayed for all that. And He prayed that His people might live for God, carry out their mission, and go into all the world and give the gospel. He prayed that they might eventually be with Him where He is going to be.
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