Something we looked at in class

In my Christian Discipling class on Wednesdays we usually talk about prayer, either some different forms of prayer or something along the lines with prayer, and it has been very interesting actually.

So last class we looked at how Jesus prayed for others, because we thought it would be good to see how The Master actually prays. So we looked in John 16.33-17.25. The first section Jesus prays for Himself, then for His disciples and then all believers.
Which is something really awesome to think about in the first place because Jesus is actually praying for you and me. This somewhat really was astonishing to think that Jesus would pray for us, I know He loves and cares for us, but this is just seems such more personal, because it is a human act to pray...and Jesus was fully human.

But the other part that was really interesting was in 17.33 "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." This was crazy to think about because if you were to ask someone what is eternal life, I think most would say like living in heaven with God, or being in heaven. But this is really showing that eternal life is here on earth as well, that we know GOD the only god, and Jesus Christ...

(This is what David Guzik has to say about it)
"Life is active involvement in an environment; death is the absence of that active involvement. Eternal life means that we are alive and active to God's environment. If our lives are not dominated by God and the spiritual environment, we have the same life as animals, and are dead to God and His environment."

All I really have to say is that it was something really interesting to me and something that I guess I never really thought about at all...

I love God and the Logos because every time I open it I learn something new....sweet