Matthew 6:9-13

“God is the absolute reality that everyone in the universe must come to terms with. Everything depends utterly on his will. All other realities compare to him like a raindrop compares to the ocean, or like an anthill compares to Mount Everest. To ignore him or belittle him is unintelligible and suicidal folly. How shall one ever be the emissary of this great God who has not trembled before him with joyful wonder?”—John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad

“You can sum up the whole of the New Testament teaching in a single phrase if you speak of it as the revelation of the Fatherhood of the Holy Creator. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity too well.”

—J.I. Packer, Knowing God

Photo:   The Lord’s Prayer (artist unknown)