In yesterdays reading, as the Lord was pleading with Israel and using agricultural metaphors, He said,
12I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness,
and you will harvest a crop of love.
Plow up the hard ground of your hearts,
for now is the time to seek the LORD,
that he may come
and shower righteousness upon you.’
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/hos.11.nlt
Today’s highlighted proverb:
11Timely advice is lovely,
like golden apples in a silver basket.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/pro.25
Yesterday’s 3X emphasis was ‘Don’t be like the hypocrites. And we heard the Lord’s prayer. The first line of the Lord’s prayer, ‘hallowed be Thy name’ can be taken (as I did in yesterday’s reading) as a metonymy for the person of the Father, not just his name. So the way I read it was, “Our Father in heaven, may You always and everywhere be regarded as holy.” While the Father’s ‘name’ can be regarded as a metonymy, we should remember that one of the 10 commandments is to not take the name of the Lord in vain. Both ideas may be in view in that first line of the prayer.
Translation notes:
9 Pray like this:
Our Father in heaven,
may [You always and everywhere be regarded as holy//your name be kept holy.]
‘Name’ can be taken here as a metonymy that stands for God.
10May [You come as king to rule on this earth//your Kingdom come soon.]
May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
In most of the world’s languages a ‘kingdom’ cannot come or move. Instead it is more natural to say that a King will come to rule.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/mat.6
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