John 12:28 “Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.”

Jesus upheld God’s authority and deity by giving Him the glory at all times; and to stamp that authority God replied from Heaven that He would make sure His name would be glorified just as it had already been glorified.

God was going to glorify His name through many miracles and events that could not be attributed to anyone other than God Himself.

This ultimate authority of God was not only shown in what Jesus did and upheld but also by all who received the Holy Spirit.

God is faithful to respond to righteous people who will give Him the glory!

Matthew 26:39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”

Do we have a right to complain to God? Yes we do! Jesus was showing us here that we have the right to say to God that we don’t like things.

It does not mean that we should go off and do our own thing just because we don’t like what God gives us though.

Jesus made it clear that he would follow God the Father no matter how much He Himself did not relish the prospect of so much pain and suffering.

Accept what God gives you. Question it and test it. But accept it!

John 5:30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

Christ is not a law unto Himself as many like to think they are but is part of the Trinity. In order for the Trinity to be the truth they have to agree on and about everything.

What Christ hears, not from men but from God the Father, He retells and uses to show others.

Christ is not seeking to puff Himself up but to lift up the name of Christ instead. When we get to hear what Christ has said, we can be sure that those words came from God and not just from His own lips.