“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.”

 John 17:24

We have been considering the wonderful love of God that really does surpass knowledge.

Jesus is praying to God, “you loved me before the creation of the world.”  Everything grows from that love bond.

I see in this verse a new and important dimension of the love that binds Father and Son.  It begins with something that I admit, I never thought about much, if at all.  That is that the Father, God, loved Jesus, his Son, before the creation of the physical world that we now inhabit.  The love bond between the Father and the Son undergirds everything else.  It is the ultimate, unchangeable reality.  From our point of view it always was and always will be!

That powerful love is available to believers, us.  It enables us to see Jesus in all his glory.  Knowing Jesus changes everything.  It is all based on a common reality, love.  Jesus came to earth because of the love that bonds him with his Father.

How can I know this love?  Jesus said, we see his glory because we are where he is!  This is more than proximity, this is an eternal bond!  It is the glue of the universe.  I know this love, as a believer, as you do.  It binds us together, the basis of our lives.

Lord Jesus, embrace my yielded heart, saturate me with this gift of love.