Short articles of the "Yes Jesus" book on prayer. # 16

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“This, then is how you should pray”

“Our Father who art in Heaven” # 16

 

Those who pray “Our father” do not resist each other. 

...They do not compete with each other.

...They do not envy each other. 

...They love one another as themselves. 

...They are mindful of the each other. 

...They love each other as Jesus loved them. 

...They do not need to say they are Disciples of Jesus. People know them as Disciples of Jesus by just looking at them, as they love each other.

 

The word “our” is plural. Several “me plus me” that have become “our.” Me plus Me plus Me, equals “We” who are willing to share the same destiny. They know the value of walking together. They are willing to pay the price of carrying the cross of “Familiarity breeds contempt” in order to make themselves known as Disciples of Jesus. They are never alone even when they are apart. 

 

But he who walks away from that communion has renounced a possible destiny and he is called “traitor.” A log once burning on the altar that falls to the ground loses its flame and quenches its warmth. It gets cold and colder and dies alone. A lonely “ME”

 

Not so with those who stay together to pray: “Our father who art in heaven”

They go from strength to strength, from glory to glory. They don’t only keep warm individually but warm each other collectively. 

 

GGS # 16