Q: If Jesus is God, then why does he pray to God?
A: Your question is interesting and requires a clarification of prayer as something that is part of our growing relationship with God, rather than an obligation. For many of us we see prayer as what to do when all else fails. For Jesus, prayer was a means of connecting with God, communicating and receiving daily sustenance to exist by faith in God’s will (John 4:32-34). It was relational, rather than religious. It also was not a sign of weakness but of focusing on the things of God’s Kingdom rather than noise and distractions of this present and dark kingdom of earth. As a God incarnate (fully man and fully God) Jesus was tempted and was living in the world with its influences and prayer focused him on what was eternal rather than what was temporal.
Answered by Mark Christian
A: Your question is interesting and requires a clarification of prayer as something that is part of our growing relationship with God, rather than an obligation. For many of us we see prayer as what to do when all else fails. For Jesus, prayer was a means of connecting with God, communicating and receiving daily sustenance to exist by faith in God’s will (John 4:32-34). It was relational, rather than religious. It also was not a sign of weakness but of focusing on the things of God’s Kingdom rather than noise and distractions of this present and dark kingdom of earth. As a God incarnate (fully man and fully God) Jesus was tempted and was living in the world with its influences and prayer focused him on what was eternal rather than what was temporal.
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