Third, we are taught to pray with the utmost reverence. Hence it follows that we are to prostrate ourselves before Him in complete submission to His sovereign will. Fifth, by praying thus, we are trained to make His glory our chief concern, endeavoring so to walk that our lives show forth His praise. How marked is the contrast between our Father s Kingdom, power, and glory and the fleeting dominion and evanescent glory of earthly monarchs. When we pray aright, we look beyond time into eternity and measure present things by their connection with the future.
Earthly kingdoms decay and disappear.
Creaturely power is puny and but for a moment. The glory of human beings and of all mundane things vanishes like a dream. But the Kingdom and power and glory of Jehovah are susceptible to neither change nor diminution, and they shall know no end. Our blessed hope is that, when the first heaven and earth have passed away, the Kingdom and power and glory of God will be known and adored in their wondrous reality through all eternity. This word intimates the two things required in prayer, namely, a fervent desire and the exercise of faith.