Our Father
From The Pastor’s Desk
“Our Father who is in Heaven hallowed be Thy name”. This, of course begins the famous “Lord’s Prayer”, sometimes called the “Our Father
Prayer”. This was the model prayer that Jesus taught to His disciples. Today is Father’s Day and while this day is meant to show honor to our earthly fathers, how much more should we be honoring our heavenly Father, our Creator and soul proprietor to the entire universe and beyond? So, today that is what we will do! We will first look to Him as our loving provider who fulfills our daily needs (much as does our earthly fathers). We will both recognize and thank Him that He has chosen us and has brought us into His own family. We thank Him that we are not simply His servants but He has given us a spirit of adoption that we might call Him “Daddy” or in Hebrew “Abba”. What a wonderful Father who loves us enough even to correct us when we stray. He leads us from our lives of unrighteousness into His holiness and His righteousness. It is no wonder that as we pray the “Lord’s Prayer”, that we pray saying “Thy Kingdom come”.
Pastor Wayne
