Paul isn’t praying for Christ to be present with you. If you are a Christian, Christ already is. He is praying for you to know of yourself “I am one in whom Christ Jesus dwells.” He is praying for your awareness of your union with Christ. He is praying that you would know what you know—for the gap to be narrowed—until the day when faith becomes sight and we see him, face to face, who has already, all this time, been there beside us.
