“I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”- John 17:26 (NASB)
Jesus’ prayer in this chapter of the Gospel of John is intimately linked with the themes and language of His teaching to this point. In verse 20 of this chapter Jesus prays not only for His disciples who are to be His apostles but also for all who will believe in Him through the words they will preach, write and preserve for all the future faithful. Jesus’ desire was for us to experience that which is most enjoyable. But we find that there is nothing in this world that is of such worth that it can meet the deepest longing of our hearts. We lack the strength to even savor the best treasures to their maximum worth. What we find enjoyment in does not last, it comes to an end. God does not love the Son the way he loves sinners. He loves the Son because the Son is infinitely worthy of love. But if God’s pleasure in the Son becomes our pleasure, then the object of our pleasure, Jesus, will be inexhaustible in personal worth. Jesus prays that this pleasure that God has in his Son will be the same pleasure we have in the Son.
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