John 17:4-6

John 17:4-6. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

What a sweet thing for the Lord Jesus to say of that poor, much-erring company of disciples, "They have kept thy word"! "They have not been all they might have been, nor all they ought to have been, but, O my Father, they have kept thy word!" I trust that we may be found faithful to the truth that the Holy Spirit has taught us, and obedient to its precepts, that our Lord may be able to say to his Father concerning us also, "They have kept thy word."