![hallowed be thy name hallowed be thy name](http://millheiser.com/hokeyblog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/blghallowedbethyname.jpg)
“I am the Lord your God consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.
![hallowed be thy name hallowed be thy name](https://jesuitreflections.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/our-father-hallowed-be-thy-name.jpg)
3:13 4:7), a theme also sounded in the Old Testament: Here, Paul helps us see that our lifelong progression toward holiness, historically called “sanctification,” is our response to God’s election of us “before the creation of the world.” Paul repeatedly emphasizes that those whom God has called to be his people are therefore to separate themselves from unclean things and be perfectly holy (II Cor. Positively, holiness, seen as moral perfection, displays itself in love, which is the fulfillment of God’s will. From a negative perspective, holiness is seen as the absence of moral defect or sin, that is, as blamelessness. In these verses, holiness, blamelessness and love are complementary terms. “I’m convinced that renewal is not going to be experienced among today’s Christians and within our churches until we recover some sense of holiness.” In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will” (Eph. Paul tells “the saints ( hagiois, ‘the holy ones’) in Ephesus” that God “chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. … Each of us has been named by the God whom we name in prayer, commandeered, elected, chosen, ordained as priests to the world.” We are daily reminded that we are not our own. Moreover, write William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas, by our prayer and worship “we discover not just who God is but also who we are. We pray “hallowed be thy name” not because our prayers change God but because our holy God delights in our worship and, in turn, invites us to glorify and enjoy him forever. These and similar praises modeled for us in Scripture are to be our grateful response to the God who has revealed himself to us, entered into a covenant relationship with us, and restored us to a right relationship with him. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,” cry the living creatures who surround the throne in heaven (Rev. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name” is the psalmist’s self-exhortation (Psalm 103:1). Yet, our prayers and praises do matter to God. Nothing we can say or do can add to or detract from God’s intrinsic holiness. The name of God, which stands for the character of God, must be treated as holy, for God himself is holy. To hallow is thus to regard and to treat as holy and sacred. Its second meaning is to treat as holy, that is, to hold sacred. First, it may mean to set apart an ordinary, secular thing for sacred service. The Greek word translated “hallow,” hagiazein, has two basic meanings. Similarly, God has made known to us what it means to be holy. However, we can know God truly because he has revealed himself to us. Just as we do not define God, so we cannot fully comprehend God’s holiness. And that revelation must be received by faith, which itself is God’s gift. But only God himself can reveal his holiness. Creation declares to all people the majesty and glory of God. In fact, it is only those who belong to God who can recognize his holiness. The heavenly hosts and the people of God praise God’s holiness (Ex. God is absolutely holy because he is totally different from every aspect of creation. God, in the essential nature of his being, is holy. For example, Scripture teaches that the Sabbath day is holy because it is set apart from the other six and that the temple was holy because it was devoted to God-ordained functions. “Hallow,” a verb we rarely use anymore, means “to make holy.” In both the Old and New Testament, the words for “holy” come from roots meaning “separate, set apart.” That which is holy is thus different from ordinary things it belongs to another order.
#Hallowed be thy name how to#
For it teaches us about the One to whom we pray and how to live in response to his claim on our lives. That, as Donald Williams notes, “is an amazing request, like asking for a circle to be round or a square to have four sides.”Īnd yet, while “hallowed be thy name” may seem the least likely and least necessary of the six petitions in the Lord’s Prayer, it is perhaps the petition that teaches us the most about prayer.
![hallowed be thy name hallowed be thy name](https://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagepreviews/HL_DDS_12405714HHj6NVa5T.png)
When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, the first thing he said they were to ask was that God make his own name holy. Mills, Posted Wednesday, Suggested Scripture Readings: The Presbyterian Layman Foundations of the Faith