“If I thoroughly appreciated these first words of the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Our Father, which art in Heaven,’ and really believed that God, who made heaven and earth, and all creatures, and has all things in His hand, was my Father, then I should certainly conclude with myself that I also am a lord of heaven and earth, that Christ is my brother, Gabriel my servant, Raphael my coachman, and all the angels my attendants at need, given unto me by my heavenly Father, to keep me in the path, that unawares I knock my foot against a stone. But that our faith may be exercised and confirmed, our heavenly Father suffers us to be cast into dungeons, or plunged into water. So we may see how finely we understand these words, and how belief shakes, and how great our weakness is, so that we begin to think, ‘Ah, who knows how far that is true which is set forth in the Scriptures.’” — Martin Luther |
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