We live, as Jesus lived, in a world all too full of injustice, hunger, malice, and evil.
The Lord’s Prayer serves as a lens through which to see Jesus Himself, and to discover something of what He was about. The prayer cries out for justice, bread, forgiveness, and deliverance.
There is good reason from Scripture to find prayer both puzzling and mysterious. Paul, in a famous passage, says that “we don’t know how to pray, or what to pray for, as we ought,” and says that we therefore depend on God’s spirit to help us, catching us up into the agonizing dialogue between the living God and the pain of the world, even though we don’t really understand what’s happening (Romans 8:18-27). That may be humbling, but it should also be encouraging.
How do you set about praying? If we’re honest, we recognize that we’re usually in some sort of mess, and we want God to get us out of it. And we’ve usually got some fairly pressing needs that we want God to meet.
The Lord’s Prayer is designed to help us make a change of focus and a change of priority, not just a change of content.
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