God’s Family Hymnal 12:4

【The Love Expression That Stuns the Universe】

I’m the love gift of Abba

To His Beloved Son

A gift that gives His heart,

Endured the greatest pain.

Such love expression

Stuns the whole universe.

Makes me stand in wonder.

O’ the love of Abba

Toward His only Son.

O’ the Lord, with rapturous joy received

His Father’s love gift

And endured the bitter cross.

O’ the love within the Trinity

Is why “I am”.

I am most tenderly blessed.

O Abba, the Lord and the Spirit

Embrace me

To the depth of Their fairest heart!

We’re the most beloved treasure

In Their sweet love communion

From eternity to eternity!

【John 17:1-9, 20-26】

1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.

8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.”

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”