embodied prayer
What could it look like for your life of prayer to intersect your life embodied?
Luke 18:2-3
Jesus said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’"
The illustration Jesus relies on to make his eventual point through the parable is an “unjust judge:" one who neither fears God nor has respect for people. These shortcomings indicate that the judge is obviously in violation of the covenant expectations for God’s people according to Torah.
The vehicle for telling a focused parable about prayer is a broader story about who God’s people are to be: people who revere God and honor God’s moral expectations for the world, known most clearly in love, hospitality, compassion, and justice.
In a roundabout way, Jesus shows us how prayer is linked to our actions, the way we embody our faith and treat others.
What could it look like for your life of prayer to intersect your life embodied?