Today’s devotion is Luke 11:1-4.
“1 It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”
2 And He said to them, “When you pray, say:
‘Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
3 ‘Give us each day our daily bread.
4 ‘And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.'” Luke 11:1-4. (Emphasis added.)
‘Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
3 ‘Give us each day our daily bread.
4 ‘And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.'” Luke 11:1-4. (Emphasis added.)
The first prayer request, and maybe the most important prayer request, is that God’s name be hallowed.
The first commandment is similar: “You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3.
We are also reminded of Proverbs 9:10 :
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
Everywhere in the Bible, we are taught the holiness of God, There are 583 verses with the word “holy” in it – Click here: BibleGateway.com – Keyword Search: holy
One of the books that cemented my understanding and appreciation for Reformed Doctrine a/k/a Calvinism was The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul – Click here: Amazon.com: The Holiness of God (9780842339650): R. C. Sproul: Books
“As the great Calvinist B. B. Warfield has expressed it: “From these things shine out upon us the formative principle of Calvinism. The Calvinist is the man who sees God behind all phenomena and in all that occurs recognizes the hand of God, working out His will; who makes the attitude of the soul to God in prayer its permanent attitude in all its life-activities; and who casts himself on the grace of God alone, excluding every trace of dependence on self from the whole work of his salvation.”9 The same author in another place asserts that the fundamental principle of Calvinism “lies in a profound apprehension of God in His majesty, with the inevitably accompanying poignant realization of the exact relation sustained to Him by the creature as such, and particularly by the sinful creature. . . The Calvinist is the man who has seen God, and who, having seen God in His glory, is filled on the one hand with a sense of his own unworthiness to stand in God’s sight as a creature, and much more as a sinner, and on the other with adoring wonder that nevertheless this God is a God Who receives sinners.” as quoted in “The Fundamental Principle of Calvinism by Henry Meeter.
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