And he said
unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father (KJV)
Luke 11:2
There is a way we address
or talk to our parent, there is also a way we address our friends, and even our
colleagues. We all know that there is a total difference in the way we address
our parent, friend and colleagues. Defiantly the way we will address our God
should be different too. There is a great need to pray to God, and He Have
invites us to address Him as “Our Father”
When we become
conscious of God’s greatness and glory in prayer, it will take us on new power
and fervency. Job had complained bitterly about his misfortune and had made
some self-righteous statements, finally met the Lord and cried out, “I have
heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I
abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5-6). Isaiah saw a vision
of God and exclaimed, “Woe is me, for I am undone! (Isaiah 6:5). Ezekiel
observed the glory of the Lord and declared, “So when I saw it, I fell on my face”
(Ezek.1:28). The apostle John, after seeing a vision of the glorified Son of
God, said, “I fell at His feet as dead” (Rev. 1:17)
To all these men,
the vision of God’s greatness and glory brought an overwhelming sense of their
weakness and depravity. Yet God invites us to address Him as “Our Father”