We continue today to look at John 17 and the subject of Christian Unity, the oneness that God desires for His people to manifest in the Body of Christ. We see that the great heartbeat of Jesus in His High Priestly Prayer is the oneness of His people. Three times He asks the Father that “they may be one.” Our pattern for oneness is the unity of the Trinity. Today we examine a fourth aspect of the relationship between the Persons of the Trinity: the mutual delight each Person has for the Others. God intends for us to reflect this delight in our relationships with other believers. Ultimately, our delight is all in God, but in our relationships in the Body of Christ the delight we show in others is a reflection of that Divine delight. One of the most horrible misrepresentations of the Gospel is a joyless Christian. The New Testament makes clear that to be a follower of Jesus Christ is to come into joy. Jesus prays that His joy might be in His disciples and His people. One of the things that characterizes the essence of God is that He is infinitely happy; there is no unhappiness in God. When we come to be partakers of the Divine Nature, we should be marked by joy. This is not a trivial, happy-go-lucky joy; this is joy that comes from the very depths of a person's soul; joy that comes in the midst of sorrow and the ugliness of this world. We see God's hand and His glory and that fills us with joy.
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