3 - LORD'S PRAYER - the Lord´s Requirementsਨਮੂਨਾ

02 – God the Father!

When someone prays,“Our Father in heaven,” they may not immediately think of God as the Creator or as the great Mystery from whom all things come. That truth is not absent, but it is not the main focus of our Christian experience.

The new message revealed in the Gospels is this: God is a Father who cares for His children—with a heart sensitive to their needs and ears attentive to their cries (see Psalm 40:1–3). In His eyes, we are not faceless numbers in a statistic, but beloved individuals whose names are known and cherished. In the Father’s presence, we discover who we truly are: His children, in a deeply intimate and personal relationship. And because we are His children, we are also heirs.

Another life-changing reality is that we belong to a family of brothers and sisters, with Jesus Himself as our elder Brother. Through Him, we are made children of God—adopted and encouraged to cry out as He did: “Abba, Father.” This tender expression is like a child saying, “Dear Daddy.”

Yet this Father who is so near is also the One who is “in heaven”—a place beyond our imagination and comprehension. He is close, compassionate, and kind, yet also holy and transcendent. He is beside us in our pain, but He also reigns in majesty from heaven.

God is near—so near that He is our Father. He is the Father of all who receive the sacrifice of Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins (see John 1:10–13). Through this adoption, we are no longer merely His creatures but His children.

Only a Father who is both near and reigning in heaven can guide us along the path that begins on earth and leads to heaven. For heaven—not earth—is the true homeland of those saved for eternal life.