Scripture Readings: Genesis 18.20-32; Colossians 2.12-14; Luke 11.1-13
Jesus said, “Say this when you pray: Father, may you name be held holy; your kingdom come…”
Jesus encourages us to pray for “the kingdom,” the vision he has for a just and loving society and world. To pray that God’s name be hallowed and that God’s kingdom come is to acknowledge that all barriers to love must be dissolved. Anything that separates race from race, rich from poor, gender from gender, age group from age group, Christian from non-Christian is a barrier to the holiness God wishes to share with believers. Biases have no place in the community that names God our father. Especially as protests and politics set us against one another, we must cherish all we have in common and respect one another.
Make today a day to act out the Our Father and talk with folks who seem different from yourself. Pray for someone with whom you are angry or hurt.
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