The result of this type of thinking is that you may feel that your religious activities have to be done for God's glory.
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Other activities like eating, drinking, sleeping, talking and buying things, etc., we have considered to be secular. We have all grown up considering certain activities to be holy such as reading the Bible, praying, fasting, etc. Everything for God's GloryĬonsider 2 Kings 17:33, "And when they and worshiped the Lord, they served also their own gods" Applying this to ourselves it would mean that we symbolically worship God on Sundays but actually worship our own idols all the time. If we are in tune with God, we'll be angry also at the dishonor that is brought to the Lord's Name in our land today, through people making money in the Name of Christ. Jesus' spirit was stirred with anger when He saw people making money in the name of God in the temple. If we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we'll be stirred with anger against Satan as well when we see the idolatry in our land. In Acts 17:16 we read that Paul's spirit was stirred within him when he saw all the idols that the Athenians worshiped. Does that grieve us? As you see the Name of Jesus Christ being dishonored, does it hurt you? Has it ever brought you down on your knees before God with a burden in your heart that the Lord's Name should be honored in your country? That is one test of our spirituality. If you hear that someone is ruining your name how would you react? Passionately perhaps? How do you react when you realize that the Name of Jesus is being dishonored ? The Name of God is blasphemed among the heathen today because of the behavior of God's people (Romans 2:24). In the same way if you don't learn the ABC of the Christian life, the fear of God, you can make no spiritual progress.Ī good test of our spirituality is whether we are more concerned about God's Name than our own name. If you don't learn your ABC's you can't learn geometry, chemistry, physics, or anything else.
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In other words, it is the alphabet of the Christian life.
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Is that truly our greatest longing? The guilt of man can be summed up in one sentence: "THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES." (Romans 3:18) "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Proverbs 1:7). It means "set apart" - that is, "set apart from all that is evil and unclean." So the request is, "Father, let your name be feared and revered and honored and glorified." In other words, since this is the first petition, it implies that the greatest longing of our hearts is that God will be feared on the earth. What does this first request "Hallowed be Thy Name" mean? The word "hallowed" comes from the same root from which we get many other words in the New Testament such as "sanctify", "holy", "saint" etc.