John 17:1–5
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
In the Upper Room, having washed the disciples' feet and given them the Last Supper, Jesus lifts His eyes to heaven and prays. This is not a prayer of desperation, or a prayer of uncertainty. This is the eternal Son reporting to the eternal Father at the completion of His earthly mission, just before the final battle of the cross. This is the Captain of our salvation filing His final report before securing the decisive victory. In our therapeutic and sentimental age, we have reduced prayer to a form of self-expression, a way to get our feelings out, or a grocery list of requests we present to a celestial concierge. But here, the Lord Jesus Christ pulls back the veil that separates time from eternity, and He allows us to listen in on the eternal counsel of the Godhead.