John 17 is a chapter anyone should read if they doubt that Jesus cares about them. When I read this chapter I usually read it two or three times. It reassures me that even now, in 2012, we are connected to those first believers through a chain of redemption, beginning at Calvary. vs. 20&21 say, "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me." How wonderful to think that Jesus was praying for you and me on that night before he gave his life as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.
After reading this, knowing that everything he suffered was suffered for me, it makes reading the crucifixion story so much more personal. Then when he is betrayed and abused, he is betrayed and abused for me. And for you. And for everyone who calls on his name, now and forever until he returns. What a Savior. Or as the hymn says, "Such love, such wondrous love. Such love, such wondrous love. That God should love a sinner such as I, how wonderful is love like this."
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