DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father, blessed be the grace and love which have taught us to use that dear familiar name—“Our Father, who art in heaven,” and therefore highest and most exalted, and worthy to be breathed with awe and reverence by all that draw near to you.
“Hallowed be your Name.” Oh, that all the earth would ever reverence it! As for ourselves, enable us by your grace to use it with awe and trembling; and may a consideration of the glorious character which is intended by your gracious name, ever lay us in the very dust before you, and yet lift us up with holy joy, and with an unwavering confidence. We come before you this morning, through Christ Jesus, to express our entire confidence in you. We believe that you are, and that you are the rewarder of those who diligently seek you.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.” (Matthew 6:9)
We pray as children to a Father, and we pray as brothers, for we say, “Our Father.” “Our Father” is a familiar name, but the words “which art in heaven” suggest the reverence due unto him. Our Father and yet in heaven: in heaven and yet our Father.
May his name be treated reverently, and may all that is about him—his Word and his gospel—be regarded with the deepest awe! It is for us so to walk before the Lord in all lowliness, that all shall see that we reverence the character of the thrice-holy One. Then can we truly pray, “Hallowed be your name”, when we hallow it ourselves.
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