Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name…” (Matthew 6:9).
What else did Christ do when he taught us to pray but bequeath his sonship unto us, the privilege of calling God Father?
It was as if he said, I call him Father, now you too call him Father.
Implicit in “Our Father” is the entirety of the Gospel.
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Brandon, I think about God as a Father a lot. Thanks for this. Do you know of any books or articles that address the subject in more depth?
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Thanks for the comment. I can’t think of any lengthy books on it, although anything on the prodigal son or a philosophical work on naming God addresses the subject. I really enjoyed Philip Yancey’s “What’s So Amazing About Grace,” although the theology gets a bit wonky here and there.
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