A Fitting Prayer For Today

 

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever.

Amen.

 

 

As I was praying this morning, it occurred to me that the Lord’s prayer is especially relevant for what’s going on in our world today! (Not that it’s not relevant at other times)

 

But in this prayer as we look at the moral decline around us, and the hate, and the senseless violence. We pray “Come Lord Jesus, (Thy kingdom come!)

 

 Families struggling with the high cost of living and even worse, other countries battling famine and starvation. (Give us this day our daily bread)

 

The attacks on the followers of Christ beg us to ask God to forgive them as He has forgiven us.

 

Guard us from the temptation to lash out at our enemies in unforgiveness and protect us from any harm that may come from our enemies. (Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.)

 

And finally acknowledging that God is able to do all these things we ask for in the Lord’s prayer because the ultimately, the world is His kingdom, ruled by His power, for his glory….Amen!

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.