“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” John 17:20-23
Jesus prayed this prayer for you and for me. The abundant life Jesus had talked about stems from this one thing: that we yield ourselves to God with such fullness that we become one with Him. That it is His life that flows through us – His mind we think and make decisions with, His heart we love unconditionally with, His eyes of grace and mercy we see others through, His strength we serve with.
I pray that Jesus’ prayer for us is answered more and more in the coming year, and that we come to live the abundant life He promises to us. Everything we search for, everything we use in this world to try to fulfill our desires stem from our inherent need to be reconciled fully to Christ.
He is our abundant life.
And not only is that abundant life for ourselves, but the world needs to see us living it. It needs to see a compass that points to true life. The world desperately searches for hope and it needs to see that hope is found in Christ and in Him alone. We are the chosen lights to point them to Him, if only we will.
May the Lord fill your lives in the coming year with faith and hope, strength and courage, love and peace. May He be yours and you His.
In the mighty Name of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus, the Anointed One),
