In Luke’s
account of the baptism of Jesus we hear that Jesus was at prayer after his
baptism, when the heaven opened and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove. This
is main focus of Luke’s account of this story, he is the only Gospel who says
that Jesus was at prayer before ‘heaven opened’ and God’s voice was heard. A call
to do God’s work can often be preceeeded by a deep prayerful experience of God.
Luke’s focus is on the experience of
Jesus in this account but we are also called to see the revelation of God in
ourselves and in others. Perhaps you can recall when you suddenly saw a divine
spark in someone you know or noticed a change in yourself because of a deep
experience.
We can
recall moments in our own lives when we experienced God tenderly and lovlingly
saying to us, ‘you are my son/daughter’;
‘you are my beloved’; ‘my favour rests on you’. Very often
experiences such as these are simple events. They can also call us to a greater
commitment to our faith and our relationship with God.
“The descent into the waters
of our spirit, is a journey into the presence of divinity…all human beings are
children of God but not all live in the awareness that there is ‘that of God’
within them” (W.L. Wallace)
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