Praying to the triune God

C. S. Lewis comments on being drawn into a personal relation with the triune God when we pray:

“An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get in touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him [Italics added]. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God - that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him. You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying - the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him [Italics added] which is pushing him on - the motive power. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually going on in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers. The man is being caught up into the higher kind of life . . . he is being pulled into God, by God, while still remaining himself.”

The Being inside the praying man is the indwelling Holy Spirit, restored to repentant believers by the living Jesus Christ who redeemed us by being a sin sacrifice and sent as He promised upon His resurrection the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. And the interactive communion we can have with God through the indwelling Holy Spirit is available to us in our time.

Stan Lennard