(2) By the _trustfulness of your life_. Jesus has told us God’s name of “Father” by quietly trusting Him. You cannot dishonour a friend more than by refusing to trust him, can you? Distrust, suspicion, is an insult to friendship. A child cannot dishonour a father more than by fearing him, being suspicious about him, doubting his love. Fear, suspicion, distrust—these things are an insult to fatherhood. Are we never guilty of insulting the Fatherhood of God? I have heard people sometimes complain of God, of God’s dealing with them in Providence. They have spoken as if God used them hardly. They have spoken as if God had His favourites. They have spoken as if God had lost His love for them. What were they doing? Dishonouring God’s name, casting a slur upon His character, forgetting that His nature is love and His name is Father. Men who, in spite of Calvary, think God can be unkind, are doing insult to His love. If you want to hallow God’s name, trust Him to the uttermost; “rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” Job hallowed God’s name, when, amid the wreck of all his earthly fortunes, he said, “Even though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” Paul hallowed God’s name when, looking at the cross, he said, “All things work together for good to them that love God.” Samuel Rutherford honoured God’s name when, writing from his prison in Aberdeen, he said, “I have nothing to say of my Lord’s cross but much good.” I have read of a child who in the midst of a storm at sea remained quiet, calm, and fearless, and who, on being asked how it was she was not afraid, answered, with the simplicity of childhood, “My father is the captain.” She honoured the name father by her perfect trustfulness. We find ourselves in storms sometimes—storms of trouble, storms of doubt, storms of bereavement and grief. It is in such storms we have the most glorious opportunities of hallowing God’s name. Let us ask Him for grace to honour His Fatherhood by trusting Him in the dark and cloudy day. Man, the child, cannot hallow God’s name of “Father” better than by a quiet, simple trustfulness.