13“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify them byd the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. John 17:13-19 (NIV)
These are words of Truth spoken by our savior as he faced torture and death on a cross. I challenge you, however, to read them and speak them as a father or a mother who is facing their own passing from this world and leaving behind a legacy of having lived the Gospel – passing it now into those whom he or she loved. Jesus gave His life to those He loved and wanted to inspire – will you?
These are words of Truth spoken by our savior as he faced torture and death on a cross. I challenge you, however, to read them and speak them as a father or a mother who is facing their own passing from this world and leaving behind a legacy of having lived the Gospel – passing it now into those whom he or she loved. Jesus gave His life to those He loved and wanted to inspire – will you?
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