June 18

Tuesday of the Fourth Week after Easter

He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you. S. John 16:14, 15.

"HE shall glorify Me," our Lord adds; for as the mission of the Son was to the glory of the Father, so the mission of the Holy Ghost is especially to "glorify" the Son, by bringing all men to acknowledge Him, by uniting them to His Body, by dispensing His gifts purchased by His death, by preparing men for His return in glory. "He shall glorify Me; for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and show it unto you." And here we may observe that our Lord is in this place comforting His disciples respecting His own departure from them, which had filled their hearts with sorrow; and therefore, in speaking of that Divine Person, the Spirit of Truth, Whom He would send from the Father to be with them, He dwells especially on His intimate union with Himself, of supplying His place in their bereavement, of teaching them those very things He had wished to do, if they had been able to bear them; of glorifying Him, of receiving of Him, and showing unto them those things which were His in His union with the Father.

Thy blest anointing give; The letters, now on mute heart writ, Then shall come forth and live By Thy celestial brightness lit.

Throughout eternity, Unto the Father and the Son, And Spirit, glory be; The Spirit, binding Three in One.