Jesus Taught Us The Our Father!

There are very few “actual” prayers that Jesus taught us that most denominations agree on. One of them is the Our Father.

In Luke 11:4, Jesus taught us the Our Father (Lord’s Prayer) when one of His desciples asked Him to teach him to pray and to obey God’s Will on earth as we do in Heaven:

“And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.” -Luke 11:1-4

Do we do the really do that first part? Hallowed means Holy. And yet Hollywood continues to swear in God’s Name both in movies and in TV… We hear it on the radio. We hear it in songs. And some of us, sadly, use it inappropriately ourselves, but we don’t have too.

What about OMG. Is it really making God’s Name Holy? Or is it making it common.

We all know what we have to do about the above misuse of God’s Name, will we do it?

As for , ” Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.” -Luke 11:2. We all know that this is not done on earth as it is in Heaven. If it was, there would be peace on earth. There would be no violent demostrations, no gay marriage, no abortion…To many people do not love others as Jesus loved us.

No, God’s Will is not done on earth, but, with God’s Help, it could be. It’s up to us.

We are on this earth to love God and to love others. If we love God, we need to respect and obey Him. Respect and obedience needs to be part of that love. Pray the Our Father every day, and really think aboutthe words. 🙂