When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, “Where I am going you cannot come.” A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:31-35 ESV)
Now the Son of Man is glorified… Now not sometime in the future but now. Today I started listening to Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels. In the first chapter she talks about the possibility that Jesus said that not all those hearing this prophecy would die before the coming of the kingdom of God. I wondered at this…
We think of the glory of Jesus as something that is to come, or comes on the cross. We ink of the coming of the kingdom as that moment when Jesus comes back, even though He is always with us. We think of the events of the bible as future events not here and now. Eternal life is something that will happen, not something that is happening…
Well here in John Jesus said the Son of Man is glorified now. And so His glory and God’s glory is fulfilled at once, now or then as it maybe…
So not all of you will die before the kingdom of God comes in its power. The power of the kingdom has come, has it come in your life? Are you waiting for something that will happen. Are you waiting to get eternal life, to see Jesus glorified, to see the power of the kingdom? These are not future events, they are future events only in the fact that these events occur and keep occurring. The power of God’s kingdom is being shown throughout all of creation yesterday, today and tomorrow over and over again. The same as Jesus’ glory, happened when He spoke this, happened everyday and moment since. And eternal life is not something we await, but is something we are living in right here, right now…
Live into the power that God has bestowed upon you now as an eternal child of a glorified and risen savior!
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