A prayer for Us to Be Sent

 17Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. 18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

20I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

22I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one— 23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

Thoughts: This was Jesus great high priestly prayer before he was arrested.  It was His prayer for His disciples that they would be blessed by God with sanctification and unity. 
The crux of this prayer for us is this, "As you sent me into the world, I have also sent them into the world."  God had sent His Son to the world.  He was not sent out of servitude, or meanness.  He was sent out of love and in love.  So Jesus sends us out of love and in love.  Christ loves all those He made and wants them to know His love.  He asks us to love them in return.  He sends us to them with the message that God has sent His Son.  God did not leave the world to die, but sends a Savior.  As we speak of His sent love, we provide salvation.  We are sent, but we need to go in response. 

Prayer:  Lord, as you send me, help me to go- one day- one act- one step at a time.