_How is this effected?_

When the Word of God is taught in its truth and purity, and we, as the
children of God, lead holy lives in accordance with it; to this may our
blessed Father in heaven help us. But whoever teaches and lives
otherwise than as God's Word prescribes, profanes the name of God among
us; from this preserve us, heavenly Father.

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In this Petition we pray for grace to hallow God's name[7] by the pure
teaching of His Word and by childlike obedience to it.

[Footnote 7: There is a parallel between this Petition and the Second
Commandment. We here pray for grace to avoid what the Second Commandment
forbids, and to do what it commands.]

THE NAME OF GOD means not only the names by which we address Him, but
all by which He is known to us. Compare the Second Commandment.

IS INDEED HOLY IN ITSELF. [Ps. 99:3] God's name is holy, because He is
holy. We cannot increase or diminish God's holiness by anything that we
do. This petition does not imply, therefore, that we are to _make_ God's
name holy.

BUT WE PRAY IN THIS PETITION THAT IT MAY BE HALLOWED ALSO BY US. We
hallow God's name when we regard and treat it as holy; in other words,
when we honor and glorify God by worshiping and serving Him in
accordance with the revelation which He has given of Himself in His
Word. [John 17:6+, Ps. 100:2, 3]