The Lord's Prayer Part 3

"Hallowed be Your name."                                                                Matthew 6:9.  NKJV

The second major topic of our prayer outline is:

GOD'S PRESENCE - 'HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME'
Enter His presence through praise and call Him Father because of Christ's atoning blood.

"Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him and Bless His name.'   Psalm 100:4-5

We should always enter into God's presence with a sound mind, not with an arrogant intrusion.
Hebrews 10:22, tells us, 'let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.' In other words, we need to continuously draw near to God with a blameless heart and faith.

Hallowed be Your name, is like saying, 'Let Your name be held holy.'  This enables us to give to God the unique place which His nature and character deserve and demand. The Greek word for Hallowed is hagios which is usually translated as holy. But the basic meaning is 'different,' or 'separated'. Something that is hagios is different from other things, Therefore, the petition, 'Hallowed be Your name,' means Let God's name be treated differently from other names. In other words, let God's name be above all other names.

The English word for this is reverence. God deserves to be reverenced. Martin Luther asked, 'How is God's name Hallowed among us?' His answer to this was, 'When both our life and doctrine are truly Christian’. Therefore, this means when our all is submitted to God.  When we pray, 'Hallowed be Your name,' we need to mean it, otherwise it just becomes another ritualistic phrase of repetition, which is based on following others, not Our Father. We need to pray The Lord's Prayer daily if possible and allow it to be a fresh, thoughtful commitment to the Almighty God. After all, this is a sacred devotion of our feelings to God.

Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard

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