John 17:1

John 17:1 says,  These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.  After Jesus finished telling His disciples what was going to happen, He then looked to the Father in submission.  He asked the Father to glorify Him.  We don't often think of being glorified as being beaten and nailed to a cross.  Yet, this is what Jesus was submitting to when He made this statement. He was doing it so that after His death and resurrection He would be glorified, and that would bring glory to the Father.  We need to be as submissive today.  We may be called on to suffer in the world to bring glory to God, and if so, we need to say the hour is come and ask that God may be glorified.  Verse two adds, As thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given Him.  This does not mean that God gives some people to Jesus for eternal life and not others.  This means that some accept the gift of salvation and others do not.  Jesus has the power and paid the price to bring forgiveness to all flesh, or all mankind. We simply have to ask forgiveness, accept the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, then, under the power of the Holy Spirit, live for the glory of God.  Verse three continue, And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.  Once again, as His followers, we are not waiting for everlasting life with God, but we are living it.  This body may die and be totally destroyed, but the spirit lives forever.  As followers of Jesus, we have life everlasting with God.  If we do not believe, we still have everlasting life, just not with God.  We are given a clear choice.  Only through the cross can we be saved.  Jesus made it possible to know the one true God.  On this fact we cannot waiver.  People of the world may call us narrow minded, but in this case, we must be.  There is no other way to salvation but through Jesus Christ.