Hallow His Name!
"The Lord of hosts,
Him you shall hallow."
Isaiah 8: 13
Jesus taught His disciples
to pray in His Name (John 14:13).
When David approached Goliath, he said, “But I come to you
in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom you have defied” (1 Samuel 17:45).
The holiness (sanctity) of God’s Name was a priority in
Israel. Hallowing (keeping holy) His Name
was a way
for the world to know that Yahweh was the “Holy One
in Israel” (Ezekiel 39:7).
When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, His first instruction
was hallow (keep holy) God’s Name (Matthew 6:9). It begins
the prayer He taught them so as to say, “Let everything you
pray for, everything you desire, result in the elevation and
sanctity of God’s name in the earth.”
If we're praying the Lord’s Prayer, we repeat the phrase
“Hallowed be
Your name.” But we can begin any prayer
that way, a way to remind ourselves of not only who God
is but also that what we pray for should honor His Name.
We pray “in Jesus’ Name” because His Name is
“above every name” (Philippians 2:9). When you
pray today, hallow His Name as you
begin.
"The great argument of Scripture
is the glory of God’s own name."
Charles Simeon