”During those days he went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.” (v. 12)

So…

…Jesus begins conducting a controversial ministry. And He undertakes the task of selecting His leadership team. All on the way to unfolding His inaugural Kingdom message and a radically reconsidered ethic.

That’s…a lot.

Does it surprise us, then, that in and through all of that we find Jesus praying?

The Son of God—the Word made flesh, who came to us for us, to do these very things—prayed and prayed and prayed. He went away. He prayed through the night. His busyness didn’t keep Him from prayer; it kept Him in prayer!

Before you charge ahead—before you decide or you serve or you speak—pray. This is the heart of Christlikeness.

— Tyler