Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come verse

You begin to change the way you think about yourself. So, if God's nature is completely loving, spiritual, real, and luminous - what does that say about you as His image and likeness?Д«y honoring God's true name and nature, you begin to learn who you really are as God's creation. That 'God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all.' I John 1:5 That He is Truth, therefore He includes all reality. That He is Spirit, therefore He is spiritual not material. That He is Love, therefore His nature is loving not vengeful.

Because as you begin to think about God's nature, His character, His qualities, you begin to grasp what God is. Is Jesus then telling you to thoughtfully, prayerfully hallow, honor, respect, maybe even understand / appreciate / love, God's nature? His character? His qualities? The dictionary says a name is that 'by which a person is known or designated.' But it also refers to that which defines a person's character and actions. What does it mean to hallow and adore His name? What is a ' name' anyway? His prayer moves you to think about something deeper: the name of God. Why does Jesus say 'Hallowed be Thy name?' Why not just say 'Hallow God' and be done with it?Д«ecause our Lord's Prayer moves you beyond just a kneejerk blind 'acceptance' of God as God. In fact think about it: if you adore someone, don't you hang on their every word? don't you follow their every movement? don't you just LOVE being around them? wouldn't you do anything they ask? isn't it completely effortless and joyous and fun to be near them - and don't you want to be as near them as you can possibly be? Isn't that how you should be relating to God? Isn't this what it is like to really bow before Him, honor Him, to accept your sacred holy healthy whole (unbroken) relationship with your Father-Mother, the all-harmonious adorable One?Д«ut wait. Eddy did not mean 'cutesy' when she understood this verse to spiritually mean 'Adorable One.' In her day adore meant: to love in the highest degree to regard with the utmost esteem and affection. It's interesting too that the word 'holy' shares its Anglo-Saxon origins with our words for health, and wholeness, and carries the significance of salvation.ДЄnd Mrs. Hallow has these meanings: to make holy, to consecrate, to treat or keep as sacred. It makes you think: what is it to 'hallow' God's name? what does it mean to 'adore' the One God? In the first verse, you acknowledge your true relationship to God, and glimpse something true about what God is (our Father-Mother) and where He lives (Heaven - and you get to learn more about Heaven in the third verse).Д«ut 'Hallowed be Thy name' makes you stop. It shows you why 'What is God?' is the most important question in the world.

It demands you to stop and consider what God really is. And I've come to see it as a very transforming verse - one which really prepares us for the rest of the prayer, one that prepares us for healing.ДЄnd that's because it demands you to stop. Maybe it's because I really had to dig into it, think hard about what it really means. This has unexpectedly become my favorite verse (if that's even really possible) of the Lord's Prayer.

Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come verse