He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Luke 18:13-14
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Yeah, that's right, I said part one. Out of all the prayers that can be found, this one is probably the shortest prayer that says the most. That being said, there are a lot of things that can be said about this prayer. Being a combination of Peter's confession of faith and the publican's prayer of repentence, one could talk about the context of those two things as they are found in scripture. One could talk about the meaning of the words themselves as we pray them. One could also talk about the historical development of repeating short prayers. I will probably attempt to cover a little bit of all of these things in a number of posts.
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