.jpg)
Give Us This Day (2 of 2)
Series: The Lord's Prayer
Marion Clark
Matthew 6:9-15
Introduction
I started off last Sunday's message with a confession. Are you ready for another? I once was part of a charismatic, mostly Roman Catholic community. I appreciate my time there. One of the most striking features about the community people was the way they prayed. They spent what seemed an exorbitant time in praise and thanksgiving. As a Protestant, I was used to starting prayer with praise and thanks, but that was more like a prelude to get to the real business of prayer, which was to make petitions.
Well, we get to petitions today as I continue my testimony of how the Lord's Prayer has impacted my prayer life and my Christian walk.
Let's review, first, what I shared about the first and last sections of the Lord's Prayer. These sections turn our focus to God-who he is-and how we are to understand our role in honoring him. He is our Father in heaven. We then, as his children, are to honor his name. We are to serve his kingdom and strive to do his will. The last line reminds us that we live in his kingdom, through his power, and for his glory.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Give us this day our daily bread. This line makes me uneasy. I realize that I am not concerned about my daily bread. I do not wake up wondering where I will get my next meal or the next day's meal. And so, I feel a bit disingenuous asking for food that I have every intention of finding in my refrigerator, if not already placed on my table.
Of course, the petition is more than about physical food. Even so, food is the term, and surely Jesus means food as well as whatever else may be attached to the term. What the petition then does is to force me to confront my self-reliance and my glib assumptions. I go through life relying on my ability to earn sufficient income to obtain the groceries from the store. I assume that such income will always be there, that the economy will always ...
Series: The Lord's Prayer
Marion Clark
Matthew 6:9-15
Introduction
I started off last Sunday's message with a confession. Are you ready for another? I once was part of a charismatic, mostly Roman Catholic community. I appreciate my time there. One of the most striking features about the community people was the way they prayed. They spent what seemed an exorbitant time in praise and thanksgiving. As a Protestant, I was used to starting prayer with praise and thanks, but that was more like a prelude to get to the real business of prayer, which was to make petitions.
Well, we get to petitions today as I continue my testimony of how the Lord's Prayer has impacted my prayer life and my Christian walk.
Let's review, first, what I shared about the first and last sections of the Lord's Prayer. These sections turn our focus to God-who he is-and how we are to understand our role in honoring him. He is our Father in heaven. We then, as his children, are to honor his name. We are to serve his kingdom and strive to do his will. The last line reminds us that we live in his kingdom, through his power, and for his glory.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Give us this day our daily bread. This line makes me uneasy. I realize that I am not concerned about my daily bread. I do not wake up wondering where I will get my next meal or the next day's meal. And so, I feel a bit disingenuous asking for food that I have every intention of finding in my refrigerator, if not already placed on my table.
Of course, the petition is more than about physical food. Even so, food is the term, and surely Jesus means food as well as whatever else may be attached to the term. What the petition then does is to force me to confront my self-reliance and my glib assumptions. I go through life relying on my ability to earn sufficient income to obtain the groceries from the store. I assume that such income will always be there, that the economy will always ...
There are 16024 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
