We Love God & Want to be Close to Him (TMF:1245)

Friday, October 25, 2019
Peace to Live By: We Love God & Want to be Close to Him (TMF:1245) - Daniel Litton
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       Previously, we discussed the first part of our Lord’s prayer, the first verse actually, which says, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name” (ESV). This week we are going to pick up where we left off, and continue to discuss this wonderful prayer. Now, we established that this model from our Lord Jesus can be used as a daily prayer for his followers, those of us who know Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior. Indeed, if we know Jesus, we love him, and we want to be in close relationship with our Heavenly Father. We want to spend time with him, as this really is our main goal in life—to love God with all of our beings. So, we love spending time in prayer with God. So, today, we pick up in verse 10, which says, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Wow, there is a lot going on here in this short sentence. There is much we can discuss. I want to note, first, as an overview to this section of the prayer, that in order to be close to God in the most basic sense, as believers, we must love him. Now, in order to love God, we must love his truth—the Bible—his will in what he says is true.