You’re NOT in my thoughts OR my prayers!

Can you imagine someone saying to a person who is going through a tough moment, “I just wanted to let you know that you’re definitely NOT in my thoughts OR my prayers.” We would think the person a beast. In a culture that blithely bandies the phrase, “You’re in my thoughts and prayers” as one of many expressions of virtue signaling, Jesus’ words are all the more shocking: “I am not praying for the world” John 17:9. To mention that we are praying (regardless of whether or not we actually are praying) is to indicate that we care. Therefore it stands to reason that if the world is not “in Jesus’ thoughts and prayers” then he must not care. But then there’s that bit about the cross and the dying and undergoing all sorts of suffering for the world – the world he says he is not praying for! Remember John 3:16? “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…” He does care. Prayer may not be his way of showing it.

Now, if we keep reading, we see Jesus doubling down on this notion. To wit:  “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message…” John 17:20 There it is again. The world is not in Jesus’ thoughts and prayers but the future church is. That’s you and that’s me. He is praying specifically and exclusively for believers. Let’s add a bit from three other passages which prove that this is still going on undiminished:

Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died – more than that, who was raised to life – is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ~Romans 8:34
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My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have a defense attorney with the Father – Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. ~I John 2:1

Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. ~Hebrews 7:25

We’ll not solve the entire riddle just yet. For now, just rest in the knowledge that for the day ahead, even if you’ve no time to pray for yourself, the Savior of the world is praying for you.