Hallow is not a word many are familiar with. It means to make something holy or sacred. When Christ teaches us how we should pray, we first must position ourselves as little children whose Dad is also the Creator and Sustainer of everything visible and invisible, who sits above all power and dominion. What an amazing thought. But then Christ teaches that we are to hallow His name.

He gives strength to the weary, but opposes the proud.He increases the power of the weak, but opposes the proud. Pride keeps us from acknowledging our failures and flaws. We do all we can to keep others from seeing our weaknesses. We don’t even want to look at them ourselves. Pride paints a picture of an imaginary version of who we are in an attempt to feel better about ourselves and to persuade others to see us the same way. Pride is weakness, but God does not increase th