I have been deeply interested and touched by the reciprocity of interest between the Father and the Son in their love for us (John 17). Their communications are between themselves, or at least by the mouth of the Son who addresses the Father, and I learn the manner in which they share this love. The Father has given us to the Son; the Son has manifested to us the name of the Father. He has kept the disciples in the name of the Father; now the Father is to keep them. The Father is to bless them because they are His, but also because the Son is glorified in them. The Son has also given us all the words which the Father has given Him for His own joy. What a thought, that the Father and the Son think thus about us!
J. N. Darby