Dada!

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Ever live in a home where they called their Dad by his first name? Weird right? I mean sir is still a little perfunctory, but by your first name? Imagine your mom saying your in trouble with Dennis… you mean Dad… we call him Dennis - You are going to get spanked by Dennis? 

 

 

Matthew 6 The Lords prayer

The disciples had been with Jesus a little.. they had seen some miracles and some pretty crazy stuff… and now they finally ask God how do you pray.

They simply wanted to learn the secret formula for getting and doing what Jesus did 

  -  Probably not the best intentions, but in any case Jesus waited until they asked to teach them how to pray. Now imagine you on your own away from the other disciples trying to heal or curse a fig tree or tell the weather what to do… and your prayers are just simply words falling flat.

And if you are a disciple you are thinking “well why wouldn’t they fall flat… why would YWHA answer my prayer… I don’t even know how to pray”.

 

So now Jesus says “oh you want to know how to pray?” Start like this Dear ABBA, or heavenly father - actually rendered Daddy. 

We probably can’t understand the cosmic shift in the disciples when Jesus says this…. Daddy? Dada? First of all it seems foolish, and of course our tradition is that we can’t even utter the full name of God because it is so holy so we will just say “YWHA”… the Jews took out the vowels so as not to actually say Gods name because it was to Holy… and now Jesus shreds that tradition into pieces. 

Have you ever asked yourself why we are to call him Daddy? 

You know every name has a connotation or a meaning beyond just the name. If I mention Joe Biden, we all have a connotation or meaning behind it. If I say Chuck Norris, or Michael Angelo or even Garth Heckman… we all have certain connotations, meanings and feelings tied to that word. 

Maybe Jesus chose those 12 bumbling disciples because he knew they all had good examples of fathers and not just because they were the cream of the crop. Because I know this, we see God the father a lot like we see our earthly father… of course I still can’t explain Judas, but thats for another podcast.

But the point is we were not told to come to him in prayer with a “Dear Holy and Magnificent stupendous Lord of the highest of highs and creator of all powers and eternity in the cosmos of our Savior for ever blah blah… Do you think a God like that would actually listen to you? 

I would imagine that the greater the title the more isolated most people would feel trying to crack threw the sky in prayer.

Jesus says pray like this “Daddy I know you are Holy, I know your ways are best and your will is best. Please meet my needs today, and help me to not hate others so that they don’t hate me, Help me not sin and give me a way out, for you own all things, know all things and control all things. Make it happen. 

Thanks Daddy.