Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 55

 

Jesus said, “This, then, is how you should pray:

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

 

Those who pray, saying, “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 other.

They love each other as Jesus loved them.

They do not need to say that they are the disciples of Jesus. People know them as disciples of Jesus just by looking at them, because of the way they love each other.

 

The word “our” is plural. Several “mine plus mine” becomes “our.” “Me”, plus “me”, plus “me” equals “us” or “we” who are willing to share the same destiny. 

 

They know the value of walking together. They are willing to pay the price, 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 a traitor. As a log once burning on the altar that falls to the ground loses its flame, gets cold and colder, and dies alone, a lonely “me”.

 

Not so with those who stay together and 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 collectively to the glory of God. #55.

 

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

 

Gerry Gutierrez.