The Final Word

Early in January I prayed the John Wesley Covenant Prayer with other believers and for some reason foud myself wanting to stay immersed in it for longer than a few minutes.  For those of us who call ourselves Wesleyans, it is an easy prayer to pray.  When taken seriously it is a hard prayer to leave.  It is one of those unique groupings of words which cause us to see that something is going on which goes beyond rote memorization.  

It is a prayer which goes deeply into that inner place of the heart where the motives of our spiritual disciplines and exercises are found.   It is not a prayer for spiritual dabblers and the faint hearted.  As we approach the Amen of the prayer we hear ourselves making a declaration of intimacy and oneness.  "Thou are mine and I am Thine. So be it."  Hear it carefully.  

It is the prayer which declares to God that our heart and His heart are beating in sync. It is the prayer which declares our desire to be on the other side of lifting the load that God would lift to care for the broken, to right every injustice, and to bring the wandering lost souls to Him.  Where He walks, we walk.  We not only walk where He walks, but we walk close enough to put our feet in the prints left in the road by His feet. We want nothing more than to be so like Jesus that those who see us first see Jesus and His heart.