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Prayer
Christ's disciples in the brief three years they shared with him sought answers to the myriad matters that perplexed them but of all the answers they sought from Christ none was more important than the simple request, "Lord; teach us to pray". They had observed that to Christ prayer was indispensable. Therefore they recognized their need for this gift if they were to emulate his discipleship. Christ's answer was what many of us have known from our mothers' knees, the Lord's Prayer, a series of short statements embodying requests to His Father.
The Lord's Prayer from beginning to end is a political statement, dealing with questions like power, its source, material need, the continuous war against temptation and the evil forces involved in the human dama and - most importantly - the element of forgiveness, and the desire that what we build on earth will be a replica of what God has built in heaven. The Lord's Prayer makes clear the complete political answer, which lies in looking to heaven for what we should do on earth, avoiding meanwhile the tendency to become so heavenly minded we are of no earthly use.
Familiarity
There is an old saying containing much truth, "Familiarity breeds contempt". Listen to the Speaker in our House of Representatives gabble through the Lord's Prayer to start the day's proceedings in Parliament. Something precious has been immeasurably devalued to be hastily dispensed with so that the important business can proceed. So often that business is the opposite to the petition in the Lord's Prayer. One can well imagine that Christ prayed this prayer long before He gave it to his disciples. For Him it had deep personal meaning amounting to absolute necessity.
Our Father in heaven, I hallow Your Name above all other names. I pray for the material and spiritual bread You offer Your children to sustain life in all its abundance. Keep me free from temptation, and defeat the forces of evil, that Your Kingdom may be established on earth as it is in heaven. For in You, and You alone, resides that power, Amen.
Have we become so familiar with the Lord's Prayer that we are victims of contempt? For those who even unknowingly, take its words lighty there must recur a rebirth that results in a new dynamic of understanding. That was Christ's answer to Nicodemus "You, a master of Israel, knowest not these things?"
Social Credit
For myself after 21 years familiarity with the Lord's Prayer, it was Social Credit which supplied that dynamic bringing new life to the Prayer. Social Credit is built upon acceptance of the elements of forgiveness, opening a path to that material and spiritual abundance, where the mystery of God's grace is the key factor. It was a Christian priest with 25 years service as a missionary in Africa who first explained to me that God's grace is a free gift to all, unearned and undeserved.
Douglas had never put it in such precise terms, but I immediately saw the relevance of grace to Social Credit. There was an added dimension that besides being unearned and undeserved, God's grace was also undiscriminating. When applied to all nations and races, the gospel of Christ fulfilled His injunction, "go ye into all the world... ...."
It is in this understanding that Social Credit answers the cry of pain from an agonized and groaning world because the Christian Church after 2,000 years of striving has yet to come to grips with the reality behind the gift of God's grace inherent in Social Credit. That His prayer should become reality is the desire of Christ. What was His answer to achieving that reality? To pray. "Ask and it shall be given unto you ...."
Christ makes our task as simple as possible.
Edward Rock.
"And they shall sit, every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid".