God is love, and we come to know Him as we share in the communion of love that God is. Within this divine fellowship, our awareness of God’s love for us continually deepens. In the same way, our love for God grows as we are drawn into Jesus’ own love for the Father in the Spirit.

Prayer, then, is not merely something we do. Within this communion of love, prayer becomes a way of resting in the truth of who we are: God’s dearly loved children. This is our most fundamental identity. Only within this communion can we become who we most deeply are and know who we most deeply are. Only here can we grow into the full and authentic humans we are in Christ. Prayer is therefore not a task to accomplish but a way of being—a participation in the life of the God who is love.

And astonishingly, we really do dwell in this God. Paul writes, “you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3). Jesus died to the whole realm of sin that ruled over all in death. He did so to conquer it and liberate us from it.   Now, in him, we are no longer under that old dominion of sin; we have been set free. Even more, we have been raised with Christ, and our true lives are now hidden with Him in God. This means that, in a profoundly real way, we share in the Triune communion of love through the Spirit, living our lives from within God’s own life.