Short articles of the "Yes Jesus" book on prayer. # 10

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“This, then is how you should pray”

“Our Father who art in Heaven” # 10

 

First things first: “We are the children of God.” Our father is in heaven. 

 

Prayer from the very first word should focus on God and God in Heaven. Though we pray with our faces to the ground and our eyes closed, the eyes of faith should ignore Earth, be cleaned of iniquity by the forgiveness of sin, and should be lifted up toward heaven as to gaze at any moment the Glory of our Lord beyond the sky. 

 

God’s children are forgetting to look upward, heavenward, homeward. 

 

At night we can hardly see any stars because the artificial lights have robbed us of our night vision and have taken away our capacity to see the heavens of the heavens. Only as we glare at the moon and the stars and cannot see any more with our naked eyes, then the eyes of science and reason will come and will fail. This then will make room for the eyes of faith to envision the throne of God.

 

Earthly lights are for the nearsighted. Heavenly lights are for the farsighted.  

 

My grandmother said: Did you notice the pig’s ears? They are big and cover their eyes from seeing heavenward. They focus so much on dirt and only need light to see dirt and more dirt, which is sad.  

 

Jesus does not want us to forget God or heaven that is why he said: “This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father who art in Heaven”

 

# 10 GGS.