The Glory of God in Man
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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As we begin to wrap up our week on Jesus’ High Priestly prayer, today we look at what it means to reflect God’s glory. How could man ever look like God? In our broken, fallen state, can we ever reflect his glory? Let’s find out as we explore God’s heart and intention behind filling us with his Holy Spirit and giving us his new nature. May your heart and mind be open to God’s truth and will for your life today as we seek him together.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin to wrap up our week on Jesus' high priestly prayer, today we look at what it means to reflect God's glory. |
| 0:14.6 | How could man ever look like God? In our broken, fallen state, can we ever reflect his glory? Let's find out as we explore |
| 0:25.9 | God's heart and intention behind filling us with His Holy Spirit and giving us his new nature. |
| 0:34.0 | May your heart and mind be open to God's truth and will for your life today as we seek him together. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Just. Our scripture for today comes from John 17 verses 22 through 24. |
| 1:18.6 | Scripture says, |
| 1:20.5 | The glory that you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one. |
| 1:29.5 | I in them and you and me, that they may become perfectly one |
| 1:34.7 | so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. |
| 1:42.5 | Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be loved me. Father, I desire that they also, |
| 1:45.0 | whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, |
| 1:50.0 | to see my glory that you have given me |
| 1:53.0 | because you loved me before the foundation of the world. |
| 1:58.0 | As disciples of Jesus, we are being fashioned into His likeness, |
| 2:05.6 | that we might be reflections of His glory. |
| 2:09.6 | Jesus prays in John 17, 22 through 24, |
| 2:15.6 | the glory that you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one even as we |
| 2:22.5 | are one. I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one so that the world may know |
| 2:31.9 | that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. |
| 2:37.4 | Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, |
| 2:44.8 | to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. |
| 2:54.6 | Through the power of Christ's death, we are now filled with His very Spirit, who is working constantly to fashion us into Christians in the truest sense of the word. To be a Christian is literally to be a little Christ. |
| 3:13.3 | We are meant to be marked by similarity to the one whom we serve and love. |
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