Christian World View
Kingdom Come
Posted by ThirstyJon • 10/19/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS]
Topics: biblical worldview, christian worldview, christianity, dominion, kingdom come
In Matthew 6:9ff Jesus teaches us how to pray.
I find that what he teaches us challenges some basic, and often unspoken, presuppositions of the modern Christian.
The contemporary believer believes that God is concerned about spiritual things primarily; things like prayer, going to church, looking forward to heaven.
Jesus does start with a spiritual thing when he teaches us to pray. “Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” He starts with worship. He starts with looking to the eternal God who is over everything.
But then, before going into seeking forgiveness, reconciling with your neighbor, seeking provision, etc. Jesus drops a bomb on us: “Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”
When was the last time you prayed that in your “quiet” time?
Do you even know what the implications of such a prayer are?
God would not tell us to pray something unless it is something that He Wants, Intends, and Can Do!
So… God wants His Kingdom to Come on earth in the same way that the Kingdom is in heaven!
How goes the Kingdom in Heaven? Completely! Perfectly! In Every Area!
So God is not only concerned with getting us into Heaven. He is interested in His Kingdom manifesting in the earth right now. Obviously, that starts with individuals being eternally reconciled to God; but it goes way beyond that. It involves things to be done on earth as they are done in Heaven. It involves God’s ways salting, lighting, and yeasting this current world!
I have spent most of my life concerned about eternity. I don’t intend to give up that priority. I am, however, becoming increasingly aware that God is doing something now as well.
What do you think?
(From: freedomthirst.com/2009/10/17/kingdom-come/)
User Comments
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Great post!
I saw a movie during my vacation last week that I would recommend. It`s called Hotel Rwanda, a story of genocide to the tune of about a million corpses left in one country. The whole world pretty much knew about it and pretty much did nothing. Then look about "our world" ... Suicide bombers, drive by shootings, 50 percent divorce rate, ghettos, barrios, greed and corruption in real high places, lives messed up by addictions. I was told a while ago that in our world 30,000 children die everyday of preventable diseases, malnutrition, lack of good drinking water - stuff that we could fix if our world had a will to. You think about this, these are kids that a Mom and Dad love, like you and I do, 30,000 kids will die today! Sheesh!
A lot of people, and many of them Christians unfortunately, believe that our job is to get the after life destination taken care of and then kind of tread water until we all get ejected and God comes and torches this whole place. That obviously is not what Jesus taught. He never said, "pray like this: Get me out of here so I can go up there." He said, "pray,`oh God, oh God, make up there come down here into my life and into my home group, into my church, my office, my school, my family, my neighborhood, my city, my country, this whole, sorry, dark world!? God, make up there come down here."
Jesus' had this strategy and He only had one: that He would form out of His followers a Spirit-empowered new community that would model for the world a radically alternative way of life through which the Kingdom of God would begin to break into this sorry, dark world. Let me say that one more time. Jesus` strategy was to form out of his followers a Spirit-empowered new community that would model for the world a radically alternative way of life through which the Kingdom of God would begin to break into this sorry, dark world.
Set your mind on God`s kingdom and his justice before everything else, and all the rest will come to you as well. So do not be anxious about tomorrow;tomorrow will look after itself. Each day has troubles enough of its own. Luke 12:31,Matthew6:33-34 -
God is concern in all things for us. Reading from the book of Genesis up to the last page of the Bible we can see there that God is concern even in our diet, how we live as farmers, as steward of the world as worker of God and most especially in our spiritual lives.
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