Is God Your Father or Our Father?
Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. ~ Matthew 7:12
9 In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
14 βFor if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. ~ Matthew 6:9-15
"Whose Father is He?"
A beggar came asking for food. I told him to come around to the back door and asked him to sit on the floor while I went in to bring the leftover food.
I brought him food and said, let's pray. Now repeat after me, "Our FATHER in Heaven". He said, "Your Father in Heaven". I said."No, say OUR FATHER in Heaven". He again said, "Your Father in Heaven"!!!
This extremely Irritated me! I asked why do you say 'Your' father when I say 'Our' FATHER?'
He said, "Sir, it's like this. If I say Our FATHER, then we both become brothers. If we are brothers, you would invite me in through the front door and not the back; you would ask me to sit at your dining table not on the floor; you'd also not give me stale food! Sir, somehow it's not possible that we are sons of the same father!"
He may be your Father, but he can't be OUR Father!
Whose FATHER is He?
It took a beggar to teach me the truth!!!
GOD becomes our FATHER when we treat one another as brothers and sisters.
GOD Bless us all.
Β©Author Unknown.
How you treat others will show whether you still believe in Jesus.
~ James Baldwin
Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. ~ Matthew 7:12