What’s on Our Mind?

“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;, that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, and that the world may believe, that You sent me.”
(John 17:20-21 NKJV)

What’s on our mind? Is it what was on Jesus’ mind and heart just before He was about to be handed over to suffer a horrible punishment and death upon the cross? Wasn’t it quite ironic, that He prayed more for believers to be one than He did for His own strength? He would have preferred to save us from an eternal hell another way, but He nevertheless accepted the father’s will and the cup that was before Him. But His concern was those He left behind, those with whom He lived with and shared with, and those of us who would believe because of them.

How concerned are we for others? Do we only care that we know Christ and that’s enough? Do we really care that our neighbors, our co-workers, even our family members are on a fast track for hell? Do we seek to be one, to be family, with our fellow believers? Do we greet one another within the family of Christ by name, with a personal embrace, as John would ask his children to do? (3 John 14) Are we concerned with the image we portray to a lost and dying world? Do they even know what we believe? What’s on our mind?

How concerned are we for others? If we take the example of our Savior, even when we face our greatest challenges, we can take the focus off of self and continue to pray and help others. It just may make the burden a little lighter. Sometimes, it’s just better to help someone else rather than worry so much about me! There always is someone in more need than me! Let’s begin to pray for others, how we may be able to be of help, and perhaps we’ll be able to focus on the Fathers’ will and not our own so much!

Not my will, but thine be done. Make us one Daddy and give a mind that is like Christ’s! Amen!