Our Father in Heaven, your name is holy and sovereign, above every name that can be pronounced upon the earth. In the name of Jesus you have placed salvation and every good thing, that at his name every knee should bow and every tongue confess that he is Lord.

How blessed are we to be the center of your attention! So let us content ourselves with your approval, instead of playing up to others for their compliments or fishing for the praise of men. May we act today knowing that you see us and will give us our proper reward. How that frees us from doing our righteousness to be seen of others!

To be seen of you, what a privilege! Common folk who never appear as a blip on the radar of the Important People -- we have the eye and smile of the Creator upon us. Because Jesus has come down to us, Amen.