SA 104:34{The life of the Lord JESUS was one of constant unbroken communion. His spirit or heart was the altar on which the fire was ever burning (See Lev. 6,). And thus, if no peculiar circumstance directed or formed His fellowship with God, yet His soul was in the sanctuary; still the-fire was alive from its own necessary virtue.
The solitariness of our Lord in worship is much to be observed. As it is said of Him, He got up before day, or went out into a solitary place, to pray, that He might be marked as alone in prayer. So it is said, He withdrew Himself and prayed; He continued all night in prayer; He was alone praying. Nor is He once seen in prayer even with His disciples, though He owned their praying, both teaching them and encouraging them to pray.
Why, then, was this? If He taught and encouraged them to pray, and also prayed Himself, why did He not join them in prayer?
This may be the answer. His prayers had a character in them which none others could have had. He was heard " for His piety " (Heb. 5). He needed no mediator, but stood accepted in Himself. He pleaded no one's merit; He used no mercy-seat with blood upon it. This was the character of His communion in prayer; but into this there was no entrance for any worshipper but Himself. He prayed in a temple erected, as it were, for such a worshipper as the Son of God, who offered prayer at an altar the like of which was not to be seen anywhere; it had no pattern on the top of the mount. He was a worshipper of a peculiar order, as He was a priest of a peculiar order, or a servant of a peculiar order. He did not owe service, but He learned it; He did not owe worship, but He rendered it. He was the voluntary Servant (Ex. 21:55And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: (Exodus 21:5); Heb. 5:88Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; (Hebrews 5:8)) and the personal accepted Worshipper. Thus He prayed "alone."