Hallowed Be Your Name
“Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name.” For a long time, I repeated those words the way many of us do , familiar, almost automatic. But one day I paused at hallowed be Your name and asked myself what it truly meant. I looked it up. It said, may Your name be truly known and revered. And that stayed with me. May Your name be truly known. Because in His name, we find His nature. Growing up, I heard many descriptions of God. I was told He could be wrathful, jealous, angry. That His mood could change depending on how humanity behaved. Sometimes He blessed, sometimes He cursed. Sometimes He was pleased, sometimes disappointed. These ideas shaped how I thought of Him for a long time, as powerful, yes, but also unpredictable. But I was also told something else: that God is love, and His love endures forever. In my own walk with God, in my own life and work, I have come to know Him differently. Not as wrathful. Not as easily angered. Not as distant or changing. I know God as Fat...