If we follow Jesus, we honour the Father by reverencing His name, while we reverence Jesus as Lord. Jesus is Lord, the Master of us, because he is so close to the Father who knows all. Yet there are many who insist on stating that Jesus is God,. Now, although we take care in not speaking the name of the Father irreverently, and refrain from rushing to speak that name on our lips, yet the ones who insist Jesus is God are very quick to speak his name, in all kinds of contexts. They do not afford his name the same reverence afforded the Father’s name. Clearly, despite their theological stance, deep down there is reverent fear to treat the name of the Father the same way they treat the name of the Son. Deep down they know it is the Father who, as Jesus taught his disciples, is the one true God: Even as whenever they pray the Lord’s Prayer they are confessing to the Father that it is His name which should be hallowed and that it is His kingdom, power, and glory which is forever.
