Showing posts with label Lord's Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lord's Prayer. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Friday, October 27, 2006
What do you mean when you say, "Our Father, in heaven"
2nd in series on concise explanations of the Lord's Prayer, line by line.... you can search for the 1st one on this site...
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN: The balance is found not in toning down either God's transcendence or immanence or by taking a middle path between this world (the here and now) and heaven (the eternal), but by understanding what our Lord is teaching us as we address God in prayer: "Our Father[immanence] who art in Heaven[transcendence]." Even in this brief prayer our Lord gave us, we have the proper balance between transcendence and immanence. God is completely above and beyond us (transcendent), but we are instructed to call him "our Father." Isn't this a contradiction? Not at all. For in Christ, the Father reconciles us to himself and adopts us as his own children, co-heirs with Christ. --Mike Horton
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN: The balance is found not in toning down either God's transcendence or immanence or by taking a middle path between this world (the here and now) and heaven (the eternal), but by understanding what our Lord is teaching us as we address God in prayer: "Our Father[immanence] who art in Heaven[transcendence]." Even in this brief prayer our Lord gave us, we have the proper balance between transcendence and immanence. God is completely above and beyond us (transcendent), but we are instructed to call him "our Father." Isn't this a contradiction? Not at all. For in Christ, the Father reconciles us to himself and adopts us as his own children, co-heirs with Christ. --Mike Horton
Friday, October 13, 2006
Tracing Out the Lord's Prayer
We've been saying the Lord's prayer weekly of late. It seemed wise to begin walking through it...bit by bit.
First my take on OUR FATHER...
The first two words communicates that we are a people. I am part of the community of grace. Also, that we have intimacy, family love, with God.
Now something by Octavius Winslow
To see my Father's smile reflected in the smile of my Savior; to behold His glory beaming in the face of Jesus; to hear His voice in the echoes of Christ's love; to trace His compassion, tenderness, and sympathy in the very words and works and tears of the Great High Priest, even when the discipline of the parental rod is the most severe, this is heaven upon earth.
Read the rest of his teaching here.
First my take on OUR FATHER...
The first two words communicates that we are a people. I am part of the community of grace. Also, that we have intimacy, family love, with God.
Now something by Octavius Winslow
To see my Father's smile reflected in the smile of my Savior; to behold His glory beaming in the face of Jesus; to hear His voice in the echoes of Christ's love; to trace His compassion, tenderness, and sympathy in the very words and works and tears of the Great High Priest, even when the discipline of the parental rod is the most severe, this is heaven upon earth.
Read the rest of his teaching here.
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