(Matthew 6:9) “Pray
then like this: "Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.”
How often have you heard people make absurd
statements like these, “if God is in control, why does he allow such evil to
exist?” or “If this is the God that you serve then I want nothing to do with
him.” And yet the Lord Jesus Himself taught us to pray; "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” We must begin here if we are to progress into a
deeper relationship with our God, the Christians heavenly Father, praise His
name now and forever more, Amen! There is only one true God and his creation
can either accept His rule or reject it for now, however like any well written
production or novel “all” their scenes will eventually play themselves out,
everything will be revealed and we will see the intentions of God's plans as
they are. There is a time coming when are will be revealed.
Did you know? God is so brilliant that even those
who oppose His rule is part of His script, they too are interwoven into the
brilliance of God’s production as they expose the evil that exists, helping us
understand our need and enabling the sinner to cry out to Jesus for help. Who
has ever enjoyed a suspense thriller without the villain playing their part?
All will be in accordance with His will and there will come a day where second
guessing the Bible’s teachings will have passed, of this I am persuaded! There
will come a day for us all where we will be ushered in to the spiritual realm
and we will reap what we have sown here on earth. The Christian will inherit
Christ and all that accompanies Him. The unbeliever will inherit eternal
damnation. The lie of getting there by our own efforts, “I am a good person”
mentality will keep us out of heaven if we are not sanctified by the blood of
the Lamb; it’s as simple as that! We must wear His colours openly, we must fly
the flag that declares that we are sinners who have cried out to Jesus.
It would appear that it could be easy to loose our
way concerning prayer by conjuring up repetition, with “ME” as the focal point,
when in fact it is obvious that God must be central and the pivot of all
desire. Firstly, we must acknowledge that He is in heaven, way above us in
position and stature. We are puny in comparison, maybe this is one of the
reasons why he created the ant. Mankind towers above the ant, we have authority
and power over the ant or the bug, and we can squash it just like that. God towers
above us and He could do the same in an instant and yet he allows us to find
salvation in and through His beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Not only is He
far above us in the chain of the order of life, He is KING, HE is CREATOR, we
are the created. There is nothing in our lives that must displace that truth,
“GOD FIRST”!
Sadly this is normally not the case; even the
Christian falls privy to the pitfalls of their wants. We often get the lines
jumbled, thank you Father God for your grace and patience with us; thank you
Lord Jesus for your constant collaborations as our High Priest, who makes this
possible. Without our Saviour role in this bridge between mankind and God, our
prayer would be ignored because of our sinfulness. It is important to understand
the Jewish customs and the law in accordance with the high priest and his sin
offering on behalf of the people to appreciate what Christ has actually
achieved as our HIGH PRIEST! Our words are only ever heard and accepted when we
approach the throne of God under His cover; praise His name now and forever
more, Amen!
However now that we have the cover of Christ, those
who are true Christians must not “get lost in translation”; our selfish needs
and often our wants must not become our focus, God must always have that
position, our Heavenly Father requires that commitment. At times it is so easy
to lose our way as the pressure of life begins to squeeze… These are the times
when we are being tested to see where we actually stand. The trial of our faith
must be tested…
Examine your prayer and what you pray about, does
it start the way the Lord Jesus taught us to pray, and I don’t mean a
congregation rattling off “Our Father” in parrot like fashion with their minds
far from the meaning of the prayer. We are to pray in our closets, without any
attention drawn to us. This is where we must start, it’s how we must honour God
(acknowledge Him as our King) and “hallow His name”; to show that we understand
that He alone is Holy, everything He is and does is right, whether we can
understand it or not. He is in control and we are not, and yet at times our
feeble attempts to institute change may play its part in transformation, Nelson
Mandela changed so much. However even that change could not of come without God
allowing it. We need Him, He does not need us. And yet it was His will to
create us in His image, Adam was created in God’s image. I suppose, when God
looked down on Him, he would have seen a “mini me” in some form or another. It
is obvious that He would not have looked at a giraffe and seen his own
resemblance but when he looked at Adam He was satisfied. We know that He was
pleases with His creation; “And God saw everything that he had made, and
behold, it was very good. And there
was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31)
Prior to the flood which wiped out the world, save
8 souls, at that time in history the worshiping of God’s name was just about
extinct. Noah was consecrating God’s name but as for the rest of the known
world, this was their state of mind; “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth, and that every intention of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.” (Genesis
6:5) – It is only the righteous who have a
voice to stay the hand of the Lord, praise the name of Jesus! The righteous
will not be judge with the world and those who do not “hallow the name of God”
will eventually understand their fate in the Lake of Fire! The picture that the
Apostle Paul painted for us in chapter one of the book of Romans has gained
momentum, mankind is on a slippery slope.
A man once ask the man Jesus a question;
“"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And he said to
him, "You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.”” (Matthew 22:36-38)
The creator demands acknowledgement of His
existence and should be love as such, Satan looks to beguile the masses by
denouncing His existence and this is where deception is at its strongest;
people looking to save the planet, God’s creation at the exclusion of
remunerating homage to the creator. I trust you have seen what God has shown
me, it will be clear to some and not to others, the circle of life plays out,
but God will have the final say, praise His name now and forever more, Amen and
Amen!
Signing off
Tyrone
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