Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 49

 

Jesus said, “This, then, is how you should pray:

“Our Father who art in Heaven”

 

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 on the ground and our eyes closed, the eyes of faith should ignore Earth and be clean of iniquity through the forgiveness of sin. They should be lifted up toward Heaven to gaze any moment at 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 Heaven of heavens. Only as we gaze at the moon and the stars, when we can see no more with the naked eye and the eyes of science and reason, will we give way to 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, “Do you notice the pig’s ears? They are big and cover their eyes from seeing heavenward. They focus so much on the dirt that they only need light to see more dirt.” That is sad.

 

Jesus does not want us to forget God or Heaven and that is why He said, “This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father who art in Heaven.” # 49.

 

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

 

Gerry Gutierrez.