John 16:12-15
I like today’s Gospel. It’s short and sweet. The point is profound yet even monkeys get it. Jesus puts it simply: “Everything that the Father has is mine (Jesus’); for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you (v.15).” He says that what Jesus has will be given to us, and what we have, the Father also has.
Beware of the concept of ownership and property. What we have, the Father originally had. Our free will came from the Father. Our liberation from sin, henceforth, the Kingdom of God, is ours because it came from the Father. God took what was His Son’s and gave it to us. If he can take from Jesus, God can take from us too (think of Job).
Truth is: We do not live to glorify ourselves, for our lives too, came from God. Rather, like the Spirit that shows the truth about God’s love and glory, we live to glorify the Father, just as Jesus lived to glorify the Father.
