‘In Heaven’

‘In Heaven’

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Matthew 6:9

As Christ taught us to pray, He sets our minds on the God to Whom we are directing our prayers. He says that we ought to address Him as ‘Our Father in heaven.’ We have been discussing for the past days that our relationship with God is a family relationship, and that we are the members of a vast clan. The portion upon which we want to dwell today is that this Father of ours is ‘in heaven.’ The Scripture makes it very clear that we are ‘strangers and pilgrims’ here upon earth. We are only here for a brief time, seventy or eighty years at most, according to Psalm 90. Our home is in heaven, and Our Father is always home. What confidence this affords us. What a comfort it is for us to know that we can always call home and that Our Father will be there to answer. In the darkest hour of our blackest night we have the ability to converse with the Almighty. He declares that He never slumbers nor sleeps and that His Ear is ever open to our cry. Our Father is not in a far country, or in another time zone, rather He is, and forever shall be in the place we call ‘Home.’ In the light of dawn, or in the dark of night, in sickness, or in health, in joy or in sorrow, in wealth or in poverty, from the heights or from the depths we can always call home to Our Father in Heaven. Exercise your high privilege today. He is always Home.

Our Father in Heaven,
we praise You that You are ever available
to hear us when we pray.
We rejoice that we can come to You with our deepest needs,
our strongest yearnings, and that You will hear us.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning