Connecting

John 17:20-26

Most of us know a lot of people. But how many people do you really know? Who really knows you?

There is unity, a bond, with God and one another for which we have an inborn longing. As Jesus approached his death, he prayed that all who knew him and would yet know him would be bound together and united in him with the same unity and purpose that flowed from the Father to and through him.

You can know all kinds of people, but we enjoy a true bond with others in being united with Jesus in the same way he is united with the Father.

Prayer:
How different life can be, Lord, from the disconnected, restless, aimless existence so many people settle for – so often because they just have no opportunity for anything else, and because your church has been so distant from their lives. Help me – all of us - ever more to be part of your moving in the world, conveying that movement and purpose in word and living to our children, and sharing it together in and through our church family to the aimless souls all around. Never let us settle for anything else. In Christ. Amen.