Jesus prays for His Disciples Part I

This prayer petitions God Himself with a level of confidence and assurance that I doubt the Disciples believed they deserved.

But Jesus knew their hearts, and despite their failures, He saw them as worthy and worth dying for … even if these were the only disciples ever to keep His word.

I believe that Jesus feels the same way about each of us who have come to believe. I say that because of verses 9 & 10.

Those who were given and gave themselves over, as Jesus prays, were always God’s. All that was ever required was repentance and a willingness to believe. (Note: faith arises out of a willingness to believe, not the other way around).

By the time Jesus prayed this prayer for His followers, by His own words, He was no longer in the world. He was already coming back to God, to heaven, to His rightful place as God’s right hand, the first Adam, the heir of all and all.

We are …

 Aware of exactly who Jesus is.

 Prayed for.

 Protected by the name of God.

 Not lost.

Believers know their Savior and their God; and Jesus knows this. Because of this knowledge, we cannot say that we do not know Him.

While this may be at times inconvenient, it is reassuring to be aware that God Himself knows us individually, cares for us, and is very concerned for our personal safety.