If your kid came home from Confirmation this week and said something to the effect "We learned about curse words this week in Confirmation", they were not being untruthful.
This week in Confirmation, we continued our look at the Lord's Prayer. In particular we looked at the first petition "Hallowed be your name'.
Hallowed is not a word we use very frequently. At first none of the youth in confirmation could tell us what this word meant. Holy. Sacred. Sanctified. Set Apart. God is truly mighty and holy. As our Father and Creator, he truly deserves that we revere his name.
For the Israelites, God was named Yahweh which roughly translates to 'I am' which is what God told Moses to call him. The Israelites so revered God's name they would not speak it or write it for fear of using it incorrectly. To this day, some Orthodox Jews will use G_d when they have to write out God. Yet, in our modern world, using the Lord's name has become casual, something we do not think about. Teens and adults use God's and Jesus' name when they swear. It has gotten so common that we now shorten it down to OMG. We have taken the name above all names and turned it into phrases we use when we cannot come up with something intelligent to say.
We watched a couple videos this week which really helped focus us on how awesome and wonderful God's name is. First we watched 'What do I know of holy?' by Addison Road. This song always moves me to be thinking about my own faith journey. As it says in the song, I once thought I had it all figured out.
This week in Confirmation, we continued our look at the Lord's Prayer. In particular we looked at the first petition "Hallowed be your name'.
Hallowed is not a word we use very frequently. At first none of the youth in confirmation could tell us what this word meant. Holy. Sacred. Sanctified. Set Apart. God is truly mighty and holy. As our Father and Creator, he truly deserves that we revere his name.
For the Israelites, God was named Yahweh which roughly translates to 'I am' which is what God told Moses to call him. The Israelites so revered God's name they would not speak it or write it for fear of using it incorrectly. To this day, some Orthodox Jews will use G_d when they have to write out God. Yet, in our modern world, using the Lord's name has become casual, something we do not think about. Teens and adults use God's and Jesus' name when they swear. It has gotten so common that we now shorten it down to OMG. We have taken the name above all names and turned it into phrases we use when we cannot come up with something intelligent to say.
We watched a couple videos this week which really helped focus us on how awesome and wonderful God's name is. First we watched 'What do I know of holy?' by Addison Road. This song always moves me to be thinking about my own faith journey. As it says in the song, I once thought I had it all figured out.
The next one we shared was brought up by Tom Frase. I heard this video a couple years ago for the first time and it just overwhelmed me. Though Jesus seems like such a simple name, there is so much more that the name encompasses. This video tries to scratch the surface of what all truly lies within our Lod's short, amazing and glorius name. We need to daily remember just how amazing our God is and use the Lord's Prayer as a reminder and a request to God to help us fully appreciate his holiness.
Therefore God has highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-11