Though barely fifty words in length, the sheer gravity of the Lord’s Prayer cannot be overstated. It was the first prayer Jesus taught and instructed His disciples to pray, forming a foundation for Christian devotion.

Here’s what Jesus does: He lights the wick and makes the entire candle disappear, as if the sin was never there to begin with. He makes us pure and sin no longer takes hold, along with all the guilt and shame that likes to stick to us.

We must never lose faith in God and always remember He is working in ways that we may not always understand. “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.” Matthew 8:26

Like most 90’s kids growing up in the Bible belt, church was a way of life. The worship music was as stale as the suit and ties the pastors wore, and as long as you stayed away from sex and alcohol, your ticket to heaven was as guaranteed as Sunday brunch at Shoney’s.