At the outset of the Lord’s farewell discourse, He prepares His disciples with a proper perspective with which they were to view His impending crucifixion. They were to see it as Jesus saw it, the means of glorifying God in His grace and in His divine oneness with the Father. Jesus Himself did not cave under the pressure of the challenges that surrounded Him, but He instead maintained His resolve and mental clarity about what His cross was all about. May the Lord open our eyes to see our Savior for the man of steel that He is and learn to trust in this most dependable Savior and Shepherd all the more.