John
chapter 12 gives powerful insight in to the prayer focus of Jesus. After His triumphal entry into Jerusalem the final week before the
cross some Greeks approached Phillip asking to see Jesus. Phillip and Andrew
came to tell Jesus. The Master immediately saw this as a sign of what was
about to take place. He compared His coming crucifixion to a seed dying and
being buried in the ground so it could bear much fruit.
In verse
27 Jesus said,
“Now is my soul troubled. And
what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have
come to this hour. [1]
For what
purpose? Grammatically Jesus has to be speaking of the troubling of His soul. What
do you do when your soul is troubled? Well of course you pray. But should you
ask to be delivered from the troubling hour. Could God have raised you up for this
very reason, for this very hour, for this very troubling? Jesus replaced such
prayers with a simple request.
“Father, glorify your name.”
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