There is a measure of a Christian’s devotional life that will seem like an isolated relationship between that person and God. At times that isolation may be as sweet communion; at other times that isolation may seem like lonesome agony. The life of Christ has preeminence in this case. Jesus retreated to the mountain to commune with his Father; he also went alone to the cross to accomplish his Father’s will, experiencing the full loss of his special communion with the Father. Thus, to the degree of the full knowledge of God, Christians will neither know the sweetest communion between the Father and the Son nor the fierce agony of Christ’s obedience at the expense of that sweet communion. Nonetheless, Christians, according to their finiteness, share fully in the dynamics of such relations without knowing its full measures known intimately within the infinite Godhead.