Many reasons render this prayer of the Lord Jesus precious to His people. Foremost among them is the frequency with which our Saviour differentiates between His Church and the ungodly in the world. Let there be no confusion in the minds of God’s people. The Lord God distinguishes absolutely between those who are His own by everlasting love and those who are not; those set apart in the covenant of grace and those who are not; those redeemed by the blood of Christ and those who are not.  

Everything our Lord Jesus Christ did as a man He did according to the will of God and for the glory of God. Throughout His ministry our Saviour constantly ascribed glory to God for all things; the miracles He performed, the doctrines He preached and for the mission of salvation and reconciliation upon which He was embarked. The Saviour was always obedient to His Father’s will and from a child was aware to be about His Father’s business. 

The glory of God is the final and sufficient explanation for everything. God in His glory is the beginning and end of all things. When God created the world, ‘the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy’ to the praise of His glory. When the Lord Jesus came into the world, the angels sang ‘glory to God in the highest’. When the redeemed of the Lord enter heaven they shall sing, ‘Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God’. ‘For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.’