It is surprise and wired to hear that God
prays to God, but it is a fact that our Lord Jesus prayed and through his
concrete life he taught his disciples to follow and to pray. Why is it so? Could
he not just talk to God, beside he is the Son of God, just as Moses spoke face
to face with God in the Old Testament? However, not so but Jesus would go early
in the morning to a quite place to pray to his father. There are two ways to
answer to this question. First of all our lord Jesus has two natures, that is
truly Man and truly Divine. That is he prayed to God as a true man and preached
to the people as a Divine. The double nature of Jesus clearly shows in the
gospel of Mark 4:35-41, Jesus stills a storm. In this passage Jesus as human he
fell asleep and as God he stilled a storm.
Our Lord Jesus taught all his teaching through
his concrete life by living it and not just explanation out of something
abstract. More over he came to this world not sit on other’s shoulder and rule
them but he walk like us and he in order to acquire the status as a prince of
the universe being a prince he had to shading his blood to win over all
humanity. He prayed from the beginning of his life till his last breath at the
cross with his powerful words, “Father forgive them for they know not”(Luke
23:34) and he instructed to his disciples to keep continue praying even after
his resurrection as a prince of the heaven and earth
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God understood man that the only way to convince them would be by loving
them and to keep unite between his father and man is by becoming himself like
us and teach by living like us. Thus God the Father did not spare to send his
loving son to be like us and to suffer the most painful and ridiculed suffering
ever human suffered.
Jesus is the only man who lived life meaningful and to the full. When we
see his life we would find that he lived like any human would live. He worked,
enjoyed life, he had friends both man and woman. Lazarus, Mary and Martha were
his closest friends that he always spent time besides his disciples. He always
prayed before anything he had done. Without prayer he never started anything
the best example that be code is before selecting his disciples (Lk:6:12b)
there are many places where we find Jesus praying. Thus we can address Jesus
our Lord as the God who prayed.
We as his disciples
have no other legacy that he left for us but to pray to him in any time as the
only means to communicate with his father. Prayed is not recitation of a long
writings but a personal dialogue with God who is always listening. Thus it is a
loving conversation and sincere disclosure of our own sentiments of gratitude
and petition that we required to walk our life journey. Prayer is always a personal
matter even if we prayer as a community or the same prayer we pray because we
pray to him with our own feeling of personal relationship. Let us then pray to
him with our true feelings as he is our personal friend, father, mother,
counselor, and comforter.
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