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Neither do we think, when we call upon our Father who is in heaven, in the preface of this prayer, that he is separated or distant from us who pray. He is not distant from our wants or from our prayers like the heaven is far away from the earth. These are the ideas and the words of the wicked as described in Job 22:13. What can God see? Not that he walks in the circle of the heavens and does not think about our affairs. For in Psalm 145:18 it is written, “The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.” “But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul” (Deut. 4:29). “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them” (Matt. 18:20).
Martin Chemnitz - Enchiridion, The Lord’s Supper, and the Lord’s Prayer
