"Father in heaven" is a way of saying "Father very close at hand." (106)
I have been meditating on this idea throughout this journey and I just love it. And I just want to lay out two ideas:
1) The First and Second Temples of Jerusalem existed as sacred places where heaven and earth met.
2) With Christ, who says "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days," we have the incarnation of the Son of God forcing the collision of heaven and earth. There is no way of hiding from it. It's everywhere.
So what's more mind-shattering: a world with the veiled God in the confines of the temple (according to His people) or a world with the unveiled God who "got out" and is "very close at hand"?
Hopefully a surge of excitement rushes through you, as it did for me. Our God broke out and continues to break out of confinement. The boundless ways we can pray illustrates that.
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