Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

by John Mark Comer

This is the first and most important goal of apprenticeship to Jesus: to be with him, to spend every waking moment aware of his presence and attentive to his voice. To cultivate a with-ness to Jesus as the baseline of your entire life.

This is the apex of Christian spirituality. Saint Ignatius of Loyola once called God “Love loving.”[31] In doing so, he spoke for the millions of contemplatives down through history who have found sitting in the quiet and letting God love them to be the single most joyful experience this side of eternity; indeed, it is a kind of foretaste of eternity.

This is so hard