This Is My Beloved Son

God will glorify the Son.  John 13.32

I love to brag on my children.  In my eyes, they are among the finest of people, possessed of talents and qualities everyone should find impressive and want to hear about.  So, I often tell others about them.  I believe all parents should feel that way about their children and build them up in the eyes of the public.

How much more the heavenly Father!  How He loves and delights in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; and how determined He is to make that glory known to all the universe.  There is nothing about the Lord Jesus that the Father finds embarrassing, but in every point, Christ is the “spittin’ image” of His Father.  In righteousness, justice, grace, mercy, love, power, and glory, Christ matches His Father to such a degree that He could say, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.(John 14.9)  Therefore God has given Him the preeminence in all things;  has “committed all things into His hands;” has made Him, “head over all things,” has “seated Him at God’s right hand,” is “bringing all things in subjection to Him,” and has sent His Spirit into the world to testify of Him and empower preachers to declare Him.

We could rightly say that God is enamored of His Son, and to such a degree that He insists that all others be likewise enamored of Him.  To reject the Son is to reject the Father: to receive the Son is to receive the Father.  May God reveal to each of us the glory of His Son, that we may, with the Father, glorify the Son!