Beloved in Christ - You Have the Right, Authority, and Privilege to Say "Our Father..."
"Moreover though we do good works, we do not found our salvation upon them; for we do no work but what is polluted by our flesh, and also punishable; and although we could perform such works, still the remembrance of one sin is sufficient to make God reject them. Thus then we would always be in doubt, tossed to and fro without any certainty, and our poor consciences continually vexed, if they relied not on the merits of the suffering and death of our Savior" ( Belgic Confession Article 24 ) I recently came across a devotional that went through the Lords Prayer. You can find the link here for context. The article started with the following sentence: "The implications of the Disciples prayer are profound and far-reaching." I continued to read and quickly found that the implications inferred that obedience, faithfulness, and sincerity qualifies a person to pray to God with the confidence that they will be heard. There were no qualifiers in that statement for the