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Jesus knows that He will soon be glorified, but He also knows what He has to go through first of all. He is going to have to go through an incredible ordeal. So what should He do? Should He ask His Father to save Him from this hour? No, for that is the very purpose for which He came. Jesus was sent in order to save us, and for that to happen He had to die on a cross for our sins.
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Jesus then calls on the Father to glorify His name (the Father’s Name). When the focus seems to be on the suffering that Jesus will have to go through, He responds by putting His focus on the Father. We can learn from this. We will never go through what Jesus went through, but when any suffering we have to endure is upon us our natural tendency is to focus upon ourselves. In such times it is good to seek the glory of God. There is then an audible voice that declares, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again”. The Father and the Son are united in purpose with regard to the cross, it is a joint enterprise.
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