What a wonderful time to be reading this chapter as we celebrate our risen Savior! This chapter is all about unceasing prayer..and how that is possible in our crazy busy world to be in constant conversation with our Lord God. Well, first it starts with a shift in our thinking about prayer..it's not what we do, it's what we are. It's about a relationship we now have because we have Christ's life in us.
Recently, I have been meditating on and memorizing Col 3:1-4: 'Since then you have been raised with Christ, set your heart on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your life, appears you also will appear with him in glory." I have died and my life is now hidden with Christ in God! His life is in me - his ever-flowing life, transforming me, cleansing me from within to desire what he desires, to pray his prayers!
And, how is this possible? He says if we abide in him, he will abide in us..and we will bear much fruit. Get that, we don't produce the fruit, he does. We just display his fruit. Abide in His Word, in unceasing prayer, in obedience...and the fruit we bear will be the evidence! John 15 has always been a favorite passage, feast on that for a while ladies!
Galations 2:20 says, "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live but, Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
In the words of the hym, 'He Lives':
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way.
He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives: He lives within my heart!
Yes, unceasing prayer is possible because it's all about a relationship with the life of Jesus within each of us!
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