When you ponder the subject of prayer do you reflect on how Christ Jesus might look upon you while in that secret place of communion? For me, it gives me joy and comfort when I imagine my Lord smiling from His Throne. Of course there are many things that put a smile on my face and give me joy. I’m typing this post having just left my granddaughter who was born yesterday morning. Seeing her and holding her has filled me with joy, an inexpressible joy. As I was holding her yesterday she opened her eyes and checked me out. Those beautiful dark eyes were moving around looking me over. I looked over to my daughter and said, “Well it’s done. She opened her eyes and we met and we’ve bonded. Papa is now her favorite.”
If our human love can be deep, enjoyable, comforting, and beyond description so that we use the word, “bonding,” how much more is the love of Christ towards one of His own? (Actually that should have been a statement rather than a question.) Whom He created, lost to sin, and then came and redeemed with His own life?! He has securely “bonded” us with Him forever. We are sealed, secure, and covenanted with Him. But those human words cannot describe the divine bond that gives Him such delight with us. Our bond with Christ is beyond human words. His love and desire to communion with you is immeasurable. If you and I could only tattoo that in our heads and on our hearts, we’d ensure that we have blocked off time and a place to meet with Him daily.
Here is Thomas Brooks:
Christ is very much affected and delighted in the secret prayers of his people…Nothing is more sweet, delightful, and welcome to Christ than the secret services of his people. Their secret breathings are like lovely songs to him, Mal. 3:4; their secret prayers in the clefts of the rock, or under the stairs, are as sweet incense to Jesus.
The great delight that parents take in the secret lispings and whisperings of their children, is no delight to that which Christ takes in the secret prayers of his people. And therefore, as you would be friends and furtherers of Christ’s delight, be much in secret prayer.
Brooks references Mal. 3:4 and Song of Solomon 2:14 showing the longing and loving delight of Christ to communion with His chosen and His bride.
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Brooks, T. (1866). The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. (A. B. Grosart, Ed.) (Vol. 2, p. 185). Edinburgh; London; Dublin: James Nichol; James Nisbet and Co.; G. Herbert.
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