Yesterday at Southeast, Charlene and Danny sang/played a song about how Christ is praying for us. I think the lyrics officially said that Jesus is interceding for us. The word "intercede" comes from inter-, which means "between," and cede, which means "to go" or "to yield." So when the song says that Jesus is interceding for us, it's suggesting that Jesus is moving back and forth between us and God.
At ESR, I have learned another way to think about prayer. Many Quakers describe interceding for someone as "holding that person in the light." You might hear someone say, "I am holding you in the light." So when we say that Jesus is interceding for us, we are also saying that Jesus is holding us in the light.
If Jesus is holding us in the light, then when we communicate with God, we are not so much starting a new conversation or offering an idea God hasn't thought of yet as we are joining Jesus as he communes and converses with God. The communion and the conversation have gone on since long before we awoke. The scriptures even tell us that we do not know what to pray for, but the Spirit intercedes for us in a motion deeper than words.
I believe that Jesus Christ is the light of the world. When we say that Jesus is holding us in the light, then, are we saying that Jesus is holding us in himself?
The Light and the Life are holding us, and the world, in the Light.
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