the power and the glory

Jesus taught His disciples (and us) to pray. I wonder whether you know how incredible a weapon your prayer life is? It links you to Him via a connection of intimacy, so that all the resources of Heaven can flow into this world through you. In the Psalms, the connection is put like this:

"You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary
    and beheld your power and your glory." - Psalm 63:1

The power is His power, the glory is His glory. But you and I get to see it at work in our disrupted old world - and prayer, the kind of desperate, intimate prayer that the psalmist shows here, is the key. The power and the glory are awesome, yes, but the only place to find them is in the sanctuary. That’s where He is - and He longs to be sought there by dry and weary pilgrims like you and me.

What Jesus shows us is that we can do it; we can actually seek out God in His sanctuary, and ask Him to intervene with power and with glory. What’s more, He loves it when we do. He is our Father in Heaven, and He longs for that connection with us here on Earth, with His children showing His glory, His power in His Kingdom... forever and ever. Amen.