When I think about such people, people like my friend, Rev. I am often struck by the radical obedience of people who seemingly do whatever it is that God lays on their hearts to do. Or maybe, just maybe, we have believed a lie about ourselves that has us locked up and unable to see the opportunities that present themselves day in and day that are God’s will for us and our world! Perhaps we have a first formation wounding we can’t get past? Maybe there is some traumatic experience that we don’t believe God can forgive. As I’ve explained in previous weeks, there are any number of reasons that we hold back from living the life that God created us to live. When I pray, “your will be done,” it is an invitation to conjure up some courage. I have far more questions than I have answers when I pray “your kingdom come,” but I am pretty sure that if I am going to live the life that Jesus would live if Jesus was living my life, it is incumbent upon me to commit to curiosity. If the kingdom of heaven is among us, in the midst of us, and/or is in us the way Jesus describes throughout the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, what does that mean for me? How, then, shall we live? “What do you want from me, God?” “Is your kingdom a ‘some glad morning, when this life is over, I will fly away kind of kingdom?’” These are among the questions I find myself asking God, myself, my friends, and the world around me. What is the kingdom? What did Jesus say about the kingdom of God? Where is it? What is it? What does Jesus expect of me and you as it relates to the kingdom of heaven? If I am really honest with you, for all intents and purposes, the way I live my life looks more like I pray, “My kingdom come, my will be done, in heaven as it is on earth.” What about you?Īs I continue to sit with these fourteen words, they cause me to commit to curiosity, they conjure up courage, and they curate community. “ Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10) Each week I am struck anew by this prayer.Ī couple of weeks ago, we focused on fourteen powerful words that I contend are some of the most important words in all of Scripture. In this series, Teach Us to Pray, we are working our way through the prayer Jesus taught his disciples to pray, line by line. We are preaching and teaching our way through the Lord’s Prayer in the place where my family and I worship.
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