For many believers, the Lord's Prayer is a standard prayer. It's pounded into your head, you know it from oat to barley, and you're pretty much praying it on autopilot. You can almost compare it to a mantra. But would that really be how Jesus taught His disciples to pray?

Jesus had an extremely profound relationship with His Father in heaven, with God. In words and actions, He followed the Father's will. Until His bloody torture and death on the cross. The reward is at least as great. The reward that lay before Him was the salvation of man (ness) and a place on the right hand next to His Father.

During His life on Earth, Jesus regularly sought silence to pray. To talk and agree with His Father. And since — when we accept His sacrifice and believe in God — we are also called God's children, God is also our Father. A Father who deserves our openness and honesty.

When you pray in that familiar prayer, “Your will be done”, that means subordinating your own will to that of your Father. Now, He knows better what's good for you than you do, so it's a very noble part of prayer. However, do you really know what that means? When Jesus prayed that, He hung on the cross a few hours later. Is that how far God can go with you? It's not for nothing that I call the Lord's Prayer a risky prayer in the title