Thursday, May 12, 2016

We Are God's Gift To Jesus

Usually we think of Jesus as God's gift to us, and so he is, but Jesus reminds us in his "Priestly Prayer" that we are God's gift to him!  "Father, they are your gift to me." (Jn 17: 24),  If you have time, pray with this intimate expression of Jesus's love for us, Jn 17:20-16.  It is the language of love, a most assuring statement of the "oneness" that Jesus prayed for:  "that they all may be one." (Jn 17:20).  Yes, that we may all live in unity, understood these days as the prayer for unity in our fractured Christian Church, but more so, that we may be one with Jesus and through him, with the Father.  Our goal is to be ONE with God.  Our prayers during these days before Pentecost are directed to the Father to send the Hope Spirit, the ONE who brings about this unity.  In praying, Come Holy Spirit, we are asking to be God's gift to Jesus, one unified loving gift.
Bro. Rene

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