Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 100

 

Repeat after Jesus

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

“Our Father.”

 

There is no word in all of Scripture that expresses the closeness with God more than the word ‘Father.’

Jesus always preferred the word ‘Father’ to ‘God’ or ‘Lord’

The word ‘God’ triggers in my mind a reverent idea that disappears in the infinite and the eternal of the nature of God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent and more.

The word ‘Lord’ still keeps me at an elbow distance from the heart of God where I want to comfortably dwell.

Also, in the words of Jesus the Lord, ‘servant’ is a term that indicates partial knowledge of the mind of the Lord. ‘Friend’ is better than ‘servant,’ being second only to the son-Father relationship.

The word ‘Father’ immediately indicates equality and unity of the most intimate kind, even greater than that of husband and wife.

Even though a man and wife might become one flesh, a son and Father do not become one flesh but were united one in the other from the beginning. And that is what we are: of God, in God, and we go back to God at our blessed death.

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

Gerry Gutierrez.