URC Daily Devotion for Easter Wednesday  by Michael Hopkins

Titles of Jesus – Lord

I grew up with the word Lord being commonly used as a means of addressing God.  One day I heard a radical Methodist minister say that he thought Lord was an inappropriate way to address God, because lords and ladies were an old fashioned thing we would be better off without, and they didn’t connect with ordinary people.  One might also observe that Lord is another male noun used to address God, of which there is no shortage.  Yet, despite all of that, Lord is a term used over 700 times in the New Testament, and came so naturally to the apostles, as it tripped off their tongues throughout the record of their Acts.  So, despite its acknowledged shortcomings, I still feel there’s a place for addressing Jesus as “Lord”.