Monday Morning Encouragement -- On Earth As It Is In Heaven

 

"Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Matthew 6:10

Yesterday out of the blue this verse from what we commonly refer to as "The Lord's Prayer," popped into my head. For a few minutes I stopped what I was doing and meditated on Christ's words:

"Your kingdom come.

Your will be done.

On earth as it is in heaven."

Imagine what it must be like in Heaven. No sin. No discourse.

Only perfect peace and perfect calm because all of Heaven's citizens are in complete obedience to God. It's enough to make me shout, "Hallelujah!"

As long as we are in these earthly bodies we will struggle with sin. That's the human condition, and it is the cause of all the turmoil in our personal lives and in the world at large. Don't for a moment believe that you or anyone else can usher in heaven on earth without God. It's not possible. It won't happen. Utopia is an imaginary place. It's man's idea of what the ideal environment looks like, and it's far from God's perfection. 

A new heaven and a new earth are coming according to 2 Peter 3:13: "But according to His promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." Humans won't bring this about; God will through Jesus Christ.

In the meantime, we have an obligation to pray that God's will be done here on earth. Barnes Notes on the Bible says:

The will of God is, that people should obey his law, and be holy. The word "will," here, has reference to his law, and to what would be "acceptable" to him. To pray, then, that his will may be done, on earth as in heaven, is to pray that his "law," his "revealed will," may be obeyed and loved. His law is perfectly obeyed in heaven, and his true children most ardently desire and pray that it may also be obeyed on the earth.

Let our prayer for love and obedience to God's "revealed will" begin first with us.

Today's music video Your Will Be Done by CityAlight speaks to the example Jesus gave us to pray for God's will.

I love you, I'm thinking of you, and I'm praying for you