‘OUR’ FATHER
I always thought of the ‘our’ in ‘Our Father’ as referring to Holy God being the common Father of all us people, and it served to get us to stop thinking ‘me thoughts’ and to switch over to ‘us thoughts.’ But for some reason it suddenly struck me that the Lord Jesus might have been pointing us more particularly to the realization that God is our Father as well as His Father, and since Jesus knows Him so well we are being brought to and introduced to Our Father in a very special way through the gift of the prayer the Lord gave us as an example of how to pray.
Likely we could never come up with anything even remotely as well suited to addressing our Great God than what we received from Our Savior. The switching over to ‘us thoughts’ from ‘me thoughts’ in relation to Our Father still takes place, butperhaps it is only secondary to remembering that Our Heavenly Father is first of all the Father of His Son, the God Man.
