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“Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name” (John 12:27-28).
Here we find the Lord Jesus just before He went to the cross, and when He thought of what that meant for Him, His soul was troubled. On the one hand, He could say, “Father, save Me from this hour.” On the other hand, He had come into the world in order to settle the whole matter of sin. That could be done only if He suffered for sin.
One thought answered the question—“Father, glorify Thy name.” The Father’s name would be glorified only if He went to the cross, and so He went forward to the suffering and shame of death on the cross.
We cannot follow the Lord Jesus into His suffering for sin, but if we wonder what to do sometimes, in a difficult situation, let us remember that phrase—“Father, glorify Thy name.” It would settle many questions in our lives if we simply asked ourselves, “What would glorify the Father’s name?”
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