The Wednesday after the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on October 1, 2025 by under
Scripture: St. Matthew 6:9-15 (NKJV)
6:9 “In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
10 “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11 “Give us this day our daily bread.
12 “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Devotion
Our reading for today is Matthew’s recording of the Lord’s Prayer. In particular, we may notice that one of the first things we pray for in that prayer, long before we pray for our “daily bread,” is that the Lord’s Name be hallowed and that His Kingdom come. Certainly the Name of God is holy, or hallowed, but what does it mean for His Kingdom to come? We should not let our familiarity with these words allow us to gloss over them, or fail to understand what they really mean.
We may wonder how this comes to pass. In the words of Luther’s Small Catechism, he answers: “When our heavenly Father grants us his Holy Spirit, so that we through his grace believe his blessed Word, and live a godly life in time and in eternity.”
Our Father makes clear His will is that all should repent of their sins, believe in Jesus Christ, and therefore be saved. He grants us the Holy Spirit to bring this about, to create and sustain that saving faith in us.
Collect: O Lord, we beseech Thee, let Thy continual pity cleanse and defend Thy Church; and because it cannot continue in safety without Thy succor, preserve it evermore by Thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
