When God became man: Day 10

The purposes of His coming: To glorify God the Father

I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do (John 17:4).

As Jesus prayed to His Father on the night before He was crucified, He could even then speak of accomplishing what God intended for Him to do by becoming a man. In so doing, He had glorified the Father, the One who had purposed for the Son to come to earth. Earlier, when Jesus compared His future death to a grain of wheat that must die before it bears fruit, He said, “Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name” (John 12:27-28a). Jesus came to die. Even at His birth, that was His mission. In so doing, He would glorify His Father. God the Father confirmed this in John 12:28b by speaking from Heaven, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

Song: “O Holy Night!”