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A Prayer about Christians Always Coming to Jesus

As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” 1 Peter 2:4-6

Heavenly Father, I used to think “coming to Jesus” was a phrase whose meaning was exhausted when we first trust your Son to be our Savior. For sure, that’s the most essential “come-to-Jesus-meeting” we’ll ever have. There’s no greater moment in our lives than when we first trust Jesus plus nothing for our salvation.

But it’s clear to me now that the whole Christian life is about coming to Jesus. No time in our lives is to be called “after I came to Jesus.” We need Jesus this day just as much as the first day. In fact, we’ll never exhaust our need for what Jesus alone can give and we’ll forever discover more reasons to praise and adore him.

Indeed, Lord Jesus, you are the life-giving living Stone for your beloved people; the precious cornerstone of the living temple, called the Body of Christ; the Rock of refuge that’s higher than I am (Psalm 61); the Rock from which God gave water in the wilderness in Moses’ day (1 Cor. 10:1-4); the Honey-ed Rock of whom Asaph spoke (Psalm 81:16); Daniel’s stone, cut from a mountain by the hands of God, which will become an everlasting kingdom of redemption and restoration (Daniel 2:36-45). If we’re not coming to you, where are we going?

Lord Jesus, we exalt you, we boast in you, we delight in you. The more precious you become to us, the more we watch our shame melt away. The more we see you for you really are, the more we see all other currencies as “fool’s gold.” The more we come to you, the more we realize that it’s you who are always coming to us first, always.

We come to you right now—we come bringing our emptiness to the fountain of your fullness. We bring our brokenness to the storehouse of your kindness. We bring our weakness in the great assurance of your endless mercies. We come to you anticipating gospel-manna and living water more-than-sufficient for the demands of this day. Free us to be a people to the praise and glory of your grace all day long. So very Amen we pray, in your precious and shame-freeing name.

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