“I’m not praying only for them but also for those who believe in me because of their word. I pray they will be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. I pray that they also will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. I’ve given them the glory that you gave me so that they can be one just as we are one. I’m in them and you are in me so that they will be made perfectly one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you have loved them just as you loved me. “Father, I want those you gave me to be with me where I am. Then they can see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world. “Righteous Father, even the world didn’t know you, but I’ve known you, and these believers know that you sent me. I’ve made your name known to them and will continue to make it known so that your love for me will be in them, and I myself will be in them.” (John 17:20-26, CEB)
This is Jesus’s high priestly prayer, in which he prays for himself, the disciples, and all who will follow him. This is for all who will follow him because of the words and actions of believers.
I wonder, though, how many have chosen not to follow Jesus because of the words and actions of people who claim to follow? Here, Jesus prays that all would be one. That we would move in the world and be united in the love God has given us. Yet people who claim to follow Jesus use their faith for hate and to work to eliminate people from existence, is this being one? Is this working for what God has called us to work towards?
We were taught what the bible said in order to keep power in place for certain groups of people. Jesus was killed because he was going against the power structures of the world and trying to show us a better way to live.
When we are one, we love all as God made them and do not try to make people fit into our boxes.
Lose your box.
God does not fit, and neither will I nor anyone else.
Love.
Loving People. Loving God.
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