Day 34: Honor

I had this interesting thought today. It struck me as I listened to someone else much older than I pray before lunch. The wording and the phrasing she used had a great deal of awe, reverence, and honor for the Father.

After thinking about it for a bit, it seemed perfectly natural. God, the supreme king of all creation, deserves all the honor we could possibly give him. In an attempt to be (to use a buzz word) relevant perhaps the younger generation has lost this element. By trying to make God fit into our plans, cultures, attitudes, and the like, we lose sight of how glorious, magnicient, and awesomely powerful God really is. We can't make God fit into our creations; we fit into his.

I'm not saying that we should go around using words like "Thee" and "Thy" and "Thou" all the time but I think there is power in the words we use. Perhaps there is a reason that one of the most quoted versions of the Lord's prayer comes from King James:

And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. (Luke 11:2, KJV)

Let's give God the honor he truly deserves.

I do believe in being down to earth with people when it comes to loving everyone and sharing our God with others. But I think that in our attempt to make God "popular" it can be easy to go a little extreme. Let us not forget who God really is.

See you tomorrow (hopefully not technical difficulties this time!)