Jesus' High Priestly Prayer

Tonight's reading from the Daily Office is the last part of Jesus's high priestly prayer. It is a humbling thing to hear our Lord pray for us. In His prayer we can hear that Jesus' greatest longing is for us to truly know God and to be united with Him in God. He wants us to know God the way He knows God and He realizes that if we do it will change the world. What makes this prayer even more humbling is that Jesus wants it for us so much that he is willing to suffer and die for us to have this supernatural unity with God.

How much are we willing to give so that the world may know God's love?

John 17:20-26 20

'I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 'Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.'