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Daily Text
Father, let your name be sanctified. -Luke 11: 2, NW.
This petition means more than our merely holding God's name sacred. It means that his name must be relieved of all the reproach cast upon it and must be forever vindicated. Those who sincerely offer the Lord's prayer for God's name to be sanctified will be most careful to bring no reproach upon it nor will they ridicule it just because they do not like the persons who bear it. They cherish it. As God's children we can, of course, sanctify his name in our lives, but the sanctifying of that name universally will come about by God's act through Jesus Christ. Since 1919 he has sanctified his name by restoring his faithful remnant of spiritual Israelites to his organization and its work on all the earth, as Ezekiel 36: 21-32 foretold: 'The nations shall know that I am Jehovah, ... when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.' (AS) But the decisive sanctification of his name before all the universe will come at the battle of Armageddon. W 8/15
Monthly Theme
TRANSMITTING THE TRUE RECORD
JEHOVAH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book." That was in 1513 B .C. It is the first divine command to write, and it indicates Jehovah's purpose to have important matters recorded. Memorial of them was not to be entrusted to oral transmission subject to corruption by fallible human memory. The ...
