Bringing God’s Kingdom to Earth
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus taught us to pray, “Thy kingdom come on earth as in heaven.” How does that work?
N.T. (Tom) Wright in his book Simply Jesus explains that “Jesus rescues human beings in order that through them he may rule his world in the new way he always intended…
It has to do with something deep within the very being of God, the same thing that led him to create a world that was other than himself. One name for this something is Love. Another is Trinity. Either way, deeply mysterious though it remains, we should recognize that when Jesus announced his intention to launch God’s kingdom at last, he did it in a way that involved and included other human beings. God works through Jesus; Jesus works through his followers.”*
Let us pray that we all can do everything we can, small or large as it might be, to bring and share God’s kingdom on earth.
*Wright, N.T., Simply Jesus, pp. 207, 212, 213