ANGLICAN COMMUNION DAILY FOUNTAIN DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY.
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The Topic of Daily Fountain Devotional for 14th April 2025 is “ Father, Glorify Your Name!”
READ: John 12:23-50 (NKJV)
- But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.
- “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
- “He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
- “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him [My] Father will honor.
- ” Now My soul is 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.” Then a voice came from heaven, [saying,] “I have both glorified [it] and will glorify [it] again.”
- Therefore the people who stood by and heard [it] said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.”
- Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.
- “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
- “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all [peoples] to Myself.”
- This He said, signifying by what death He would die.
- The people answered Him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever; and how [can] You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
- Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
- “While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.
- But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,
- that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”
- Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
- “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with [their] eyes, Lest they should understand with [their] hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.”
- These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.
- Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [Him,] lest they should be put out of the synagogue;
- for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
- Then Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.
- “And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.
- “I have come [as] a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.
- “And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
- “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him — the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
- “For I have not spoken on My own [authority;] but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
- “And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”
ANGLICAN COMMUNION DEVOTIONAL OUTLINE FOR 14TH APRIL 2025.
The exclamation in verse 28 shows the determination of Jesus to fulfil his main purpose of coming into the world. The audible voice from heaven was meant to encourage the listeners.
Jesus knew that He had to pay great sacrifices, including enduring physical torture, high level pain and a humiliating death on the cross (Isa. 53:3, 7; John 19:30), and this would result in the salvation of many and bring glory to God.
He therefore called on his immediate listeners, and indeed all of us, to believe in him (v.44; John 3:16). Like the Pharisees, many people today love the praise of men more than that of God (v.43).
In fact, some did not confess Christ for fear of ex-communication. Others have sacrificed their faith and the associated eternal glory because of temporal benefits such as material possessions, high positions of responsibility, etc. But for us, let us believe in Christ now, follow his example and seek to glorify God in our lives. We should not mind momentary hardship that this may bring, because the resulting glory is “far more exceeding” (2 Cor. 4:16-18).
PRAYER: Gracious Lord, help me to forsake the fleeting pleasures of sin, and pursue the eternal glory in Christ.
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