25A The Lord's Prayer 1

Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

Matthew 6:9

Saying the Lord’s Prayer is like putting on your mom’s fur coat. It may not fit now, but when you grow up it will.

In Mark 25, we come to understand in a new way what it means to call God “our Father”. How wonderful!

No father of the flesh can compare in wisdom and generosity to the Father by Whose will you were born.

Christ doesn’t tell us to say My Father, but Our Father. We live as a family loving each other who we can see, even as we love Him who we cannot see.
My ability to be a good brother or sister is as important to fitting into this big fur coat as my ability to perceive as Father, the Creator of the universe, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the God who parted the Red Sea.

He is a very specific Person. He is not just anything we want him to be. He lives beyond heaven because heaven and earth cannot contain Him. He is more magnificent than the sun, and more peaceful than the stars. His home is beyond the galaxies. His paintbrush sketches the nebula.

Holy is His name because He is indescribable. In the very first commandment to Moses He said, “I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other Gods before me.” The Name on your lips and in your heart is so exclusive as to abhor casual usage. The name above all names that Jews dared not say, YHWH, is suddenly called our Father.

For the only begotten Son to tell us to call the Lord of all, Father was the very beginning of Christ’s mission to bring the children of Adam and Eve back from distrust and banishment.

Awesome!