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If the Lord\u2019s Prayer is the sort of thing we pray for if we love God and love others, then it would be good to look at some specifics.<\/p>\n

In the first half of the Lord\u2019s Prayer we learn the following things about loving God:<\/p>\n

1. To love God means to relate to God as Father<\/span>. It is not enough to say Jesus taught us to \u201ccall\u201d God Father. \u201cFather\u201d is more than a name we give to God, as if we\u2019ve now added to the long list of Bible names for God: like YHWH and Adonai and Lord of Hosts. \u201cFather\u201d is who God is<\/span> to us. Father evokes relationship<\/span> more than description.<\/p>\n

2. To love God means to pray for God\u2019s Name to sanctified<\/span>. If we love God, which means that we accept God for who God is and ourselves for who we are before God, then we want God to be God \u2014 and that means we want God\u2019s very Name to be reverenced. In what we do, in what we say, in how we act, and in our relationships.<\/p>\n

3. To love God means to pray for God\u2019s will to be established<\/span>. This is a global yearning for God\u2019s will, his Kingdom will, to be established in every nook and cranny of life and society and culture. When we see systemic evils \u2014 from the abuse of humans into poverty, or racism, or persecution, or consumerism, and we could go and on, our response should not be first \u201cthese people are jerks\u201d but that \u201cthis is not what God\u2019s Kingdom calls for.\u201d<\/p>\n

To love God means to yearn for, pray for and work for what makes God to be God: we embrace God as Father, we yearn for his Name to be honored, and we long for his will to be done \u2014 right here on earth as it is always done in God\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n

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