Close to the Heart of Christ
November 3, 2009
By Rev. Mitch Hescox
20“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that 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. John 17:20-21 (NIV)
I love to dream. My most passionate dream is the fulfillment of Jesus’ great prayer for His Church –that we might all be one. This Scripture has been at the heart of my faith for several years, because it’s profoundly relationally. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are tied together not through some doctrine, dogma, or theology but through the very essence of who God is: LOVE.
(16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:16 (NIV))
Scripture tells us once a long time ago God, humanity, and all creation lived in pure and right relationship. God walked with His children. His children cared for His creation and in turn, creation provided the necessaries. Humanity and all creation were whole –spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Then we decided against relationship and wanted power, control, self-sufficiency. We believed and questioned God’s essential goodness, we questioned did God really say that and we have been living in sin ever since. Jesus came to redeem and restore wholeness, a complete total relationship with God, and each other. The prayer of Christ is a foreshadowing of that ultimate reconciliation of all things that the unity of the body would proceed the freedom that all of creation will experience, liberation from bondage and decay –that they might all be one again. Jesus is still praying.
Dream with me and believe in a creation that may be whole because of what Jesus has already completed. Dream with me that through Christ the world may be a better place. Dream with me that we may deny ourselves. Dream with me that we can let go and let God. Dream of what can be. Then allow your dreams to transform into reality by the Holy Spirit. I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ, even dreams that we might all be one.
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