Even though Jesus was very busy doing his Father’s will, he always prayed to his Father. He made time for prayer, and deliberately went out to find somewhere quiet to pray.

If this is true for God the Son, how much more is it important for us as Christians to pray with our Father? Elsewhere, in Mt 6, Jesus doesn’t provide guidelines for us if we pray but for when we pray – prayer isn’t optional, but the duty of a Christian!

We should also have a desire to pray. For if we have faith is Jesus Christ, we are a new creation by the Holy Spirit and the Spirit is working in us and making us more and more like Christ. This is not to say it’ll be easy, as our old sinful nature still haunts us and causes an internal tussle. The old nature can bring up doubts and fears, reminding us of our guilt, and causing us to conclude that we cannot approach God because of our sin. Our new nature, by the Spirit, reminds us Christ has blotted out our sin and has dealt with it, and it is through Christ that we can approach God.

We need to devote time to prayer, just as Jesus did, to get away from the cares of this world and to bring everything to God in prayer. Jesus purposefully got up very early in the morning to go about communicating with his Father. In so doing, he would not be distracted nor would he be easily spotted and bring attention to himself. After praying, Jesus doesn’t sit back and wait for God to work, but sets about his task, that God might work through him.

Whilst Jesus was holy and able to approach his Father, we are sinners and must remember that we cannot approach God with our own effort. We must always remember what it cost God the Son, his suffering and death, that all who believe in him would be justified and sanctified and so have access to God.

For Jesus possessed all the attributes of God, for he is God, yet Jesus also possessed all the attributes of man untainted by sin. For he is not half man half God, nor fully God in the hollow appearance of a man, nor a man who had become God, but he is both fully God and fully man.

He has all the characteristics of deity, for he is omnipotent: he created and sustains everything.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. Heb 1:3

Unlike us, he doesn’t reflect the Father’s glory, but he is the radiance of God. He is the source and not just a pointer.

He is omniscient, he knows all and sees all. When Simon Peter met with the resurrected Christ, in his conversation he said to Jesus, without correction

“Lord, you know all things;”Joh 21:17

He is omnipresent, he is everywhere. He is with his people, wherever they are

For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.Mt 18:20

So Jesus is worthy of all honour and praise due to God, for he is God, and one day every knee will bow before him. May we know him and bow the knee willingly as friends rather than enemies.

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”Re 11:15