October 29, 2012
Good Afternoon everyone,
Here is the next portion of my thoughts on the Lord's prayer. I hope you enjoy it.
Our Father which art in heaven .....
How often do we open prayer with Dear Heavenly Father . . . I know for me it can become just a ritual but He really is a HEAVENLY father. The Apostol Paul spoke of this in Hebrew 12:9: "we have had fleshly fathers and they corrected us". But God is not like an earthly father. He is so much bigger than the best father among us. He truly sits up high and looks down low as the song says. Isaiah 40:22 says that he sits enthroned above the circle of the earth. From that vantage point he can see the past, present, and future all at once. He can judge situations and make decisions that we can not. He can tell us what to do about situations that we would never be able to figure out alone. He is truly above all.
Psalm chapter 50 and verse 21 gives a warning to those who would think that God is like us. God says that he will set our thinking straight (paraphrase). His ways are so much higher than our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts. When we come to him in prayer and acknowledge that he is a HEAVENLY father it makes all the difference in our frame of mind. It is so much easier to leave our problems and concerns in the hands of a God such as He. Our God reigns on high, Hallelujah!
Sincerely,
Rev. Sullivan Jones
