JESUS SAID:
OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN,
HALLOWED BE THY NAME."
Moses asked God to reveal His "Glory."
God revealed His Glory by revealing His "Name."
"Hallowed" is the word for "Holy." Here it must mean that the Lord's Name becomes Holy to us. This would mean that we become Holy to the Lord according to His Holiness, which is revealed in His Name. We become holy as we understand that the Lord is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, forgiving, and just.
This is the same as 2 Corinthians 3.18: when we see the Lord's Glory, we are transformed! transformed into that which we behold. We are "renewed in true righteousness and holiness," by the Spirit of the Lord.
As we see and understand the qualities of the Lord, the Holy Spirit imparts those qualities to us and we become genuinely like Him--Ephesians 4.22-24.
When Jesus tells us to pray "in My Name," His Name, He means that we are to understand that He is just like the Father. In the Gospels He tells us and shows us how He is like His Father.
When we pray with these qualities of the Lord, Father and Son, before us, the Holy Spirit shows us these qualities more and more clearly and deeply, and puts them into our own heart, thereby transforming us as we pray--in His Name.
As we pray with these qualities before us, we will find the Holy Spirit bringing the Lord's encouragement, comfort, fellowship, tenderness, and compassion.--Philippians 2.1.
Then we bring these glorious qualities of the Lord to others--Philippians 2.2-4.
What we understand of Who the Lord is to us, He makes us to become to one another--2 Corinthians 1.3-4.
Amazingly, by Grace, all this comes as we follow the Lord, focused on His Name in all we do and say, becoming more like Him day by day (Psalm 23.6), growing daily, like an oak, throughout our lifetime, for the splendor of the Lord (Is. 61).
We follow Him as we "abide" with Him.
With Psalm 90.12 we can "number our days aright" by scheduling time daily to seek this Glory of the Name of the Lord in prayerful, meditative reading of Scripture. If we schedule such meditative prayer of Scripture, the Lord will "satisfy us...with (His) unfailing, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." Ps. 90.14
Time seeking to know God from Scripture
is how we are to seek the kingdom of God
as the first and most important thing
we need to do
every day.
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