ALLOWED BE YOUR NAME

Tonight after dinner, we had our regular family Bible Study. Currently we are studying the book of John. After our Bible Study, we prayed and were about to get the girls ready for bed and Brooke asked if she could read the Lord's Prayer.

As she read, she said, "Our Father in heaven, allowed be your name . . ." At that point, we corrected her reading, and she sailed through the rest of the prayer without a problem.

As I was thinking of the situation, I thought how appropriate it is to pray that God's name be allowed. Our nation has strayed far in the last fifty years. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pace is being dragged through the mud because he stated his belief that homosexuality is immoral, and that immorality does not belong in the military (he also said that adultrey was immoral but they didn't care about that statement). Christmas and Easter are under attack as the secularists attempt to dissociate the holidays from their Christian meanings. Families are under attack as socialists attempt to hijack the parental roles of raising children. And Brooke prays "Our Father in heaven, allowed be your name."

God uses the innocence of children to sound his call to pray for our nation. I ask you to pray and ask God "allowed be your name."