They asked Jesus how to pray
To the True God
Who’d sent him to lead them?
The God who’d promised them reward
For their humble ministry?
Who was he?
Who was the One watching?
And seeing all the un-trumpeted
Work of their good-news preaching?
And who’d promised to repay?
Yes, just who was he?
He, who didn’t want them shouting
Making spectacles of themselves
On street corners
Or even in their synagogues
Just to be grandiosely seen by men?
How will he hear us lowly, simple ones?
How do we pray, Lord?
Pray this way, Jesus told them
Address him just as I, the Son, saying:
Our Father….in the heavens
Let your name be sanctified, let…
But they courteously interrupted:
Please, Jesus, our Lord
This father….’our father’…
What IS his name?
Said Jesus in answer:
‘JEHOVAH’
To your forefathers he revealed it
In the wilderness
His name is sanctified, holy
And more than a name
For its meaning is cosmic
“I Cause To Be”
JEHOVAH himself has said
‘Our father’ is—JEHOVAH
Let that name be ever sanctified
And pray that way
By Jahgirl
04/12/2018