The Fourth Sunday after Easter
May 18, 2025
(John 13:31–32, NIV84) “When [Judas] was gone, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.”
On the same night in which he was betrayed Jesus was gathered with his apostles. After Judas left them to gather the enemies of Jesus so they could capture him in Gethsemane, Jesus spoke these words.
When we think of the sufferings and death, the mocking, scourging and crucifixion, we may not at first think of God being glorified in those activities of sinful men.
But through it all, Jesus will be glorified, honored, and praised as the Savior of mankind. That will be the ultimate result of his work on earth. And when the Son of God, the Son of Man is glorified, his Father in heaven is glorified.
Jesus’ disciples had no clue about everything that was about to take place, in that same evening and night stretching into the early morning and leading up to his death on the following day.
But his death wasn’t the end of it. God was glorified especially in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And forty days later, God was glorified as his Son ascended bodily into heaven, to await his coming in judgement.
May God be glorified always! “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.”
Amen, Amen, yea, so shall it be!
Prayer
O God, from whom all good things do come, grant to us, Thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by thy merciful guiding do those things. This we ask through Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord. Amen
