duo logos

There are two words in the Lord's prayer that can life changing. As we might least expect, they are the simplest words in the whole prayer. In fact, I believe these two words are the most important and powerful two words in the whole prayer. They are the words that helps us to know just where we stand with God and where we stand with our community of faith. These words act as a kind of barometer to our faith, testing its strength, its resolve, its pulse.

And they are not the words as we might use or we'd at first think. In fact, if you are saying the Lord's Prayer right now to discover them, you'll probably skip right by them at least the first time and maybe the second.

Go ahead, pause and say it again....





...know what they are yet?


As we look closer at the prayer we might discover many things: the will of God, our dependence on God's forgiveness, our need to thank God for the food we eat. But do we pay attention to what we really pray?

Okay, you want to know the words. Well, you've already read 3 times in this blog. They are...


...as we.

That's right. Think about it. How do we use them in the prayer? As an act of conditional forgiveness. We ask God to forgive us, not unconditionally, but with the same measure that we forgive others.

ouch!

Yeah, it means that. So it makes me wonder, do I really want God to forgive me like I forgive? Actually, it has made me learn how to forgive like God does.

"Make this your common practice: confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with." (James 5:16-17, Msg)

Something to think about!

Peace ><>
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