“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. John 17:20-23

Jesus is praying for me. His prayer for me is to experience community with other believers that imitates the community and oneness that he shares with the Father. He continues to pray that I will experience community with them as well, oneness with the Trinity.

As we live in community with each other and with God, we will know the love of God and that love will be made known to the world around us.
As Jesus is praying these words, what does he have in mind? What does this look like to him?

Am I experiencing the unity with other believers for which Jesus prayed? Am I experiencing the unity with him and the Father that he desired for me?

What would my life look like if I were living this way? What would one day look like? How would this affect those with whom I come in contact with each day?

As I read this prayer of Jesus, I am very unsettled in my spirit. As much as I love the life I am living, there must be more to this prayer than what I am currently experiencing.

Father, I ask that you would help me to know and experience community with others and with you as you intended. I sense that you are telling me that there is so much more that you desire for me in my relationship with you and in my relationship with others. God…I thirst for that. I am hungry to know and live in the community for which you created me.