The first request in the Lord’s Prayer is “Hallowed Be Your Name.”  What does that mean?  It means that we want God’s name treated as holy or set apart.  We want his name to be honored, respected, glorified.  The question is: do we really want this?

Do we wake up in the morning desiring to live for God’s glory?  Is this what makes our hearts beat?  Is this our passion, our delight?  Do we want God to be glorified in our day, our activities, our home, our jobs or school, our church, our neighborhood, our country, our world?  Does this desire translate into our lives?

In my last post I noted that our prayers flow out of our desires.  So if we are not praying for God to be honored, it means either we lack this desire or that this desire is buried under a bunch of competing desires.  So consider these questions:

Are our prayers filled with praise to God?  Are our prayers filled with requests that God glorify his name in our lives, our home, our churches?

As we examine ourselves, do we find that we really desire God to be glorified?  Or maybe we need to cry out – “Change our hearts, O God!”