"Your kingdom come--Your will be done"

God's kingdom...may it come! God's will be done..on earth as it is in Heaven.. Powerful stuff..
Jesus wanted us to pray that way..I think we pray the Lord's prayer as thinking it was His prayer..but it was an example for us..WE were to pray that way..HMMMM??

It is more like God I want this or need that..God I think I deserve this or that..I know myself i have looked alot at what MY will was ..my will be done or else God you aren't who you say you are..The Big Santa in the sky mentality..

I have not allowed that prayer to reach the depths of my being..I have for years kept it superficial..a prayer to repeat in church with others..not thinking what it said except "a prayer Jesus prayed to His father God" and I to have thought it to be kinda lame growing up as to why Jesus would talk to His father like such when He himself was part of the God-head. At times I have just stopped and looked at that prayer and thought ,"what am i missing in this?"

Maybe..Jesus is letting us know that God our Father who is in heaven ...that is our Home also ..our Dad is there and is watching over us..You know how proud dad's get when they see their children doing things like they do..imitating the "good" things..That His kingdom as shared in the Word is good and Holy and beautiful and peaceful.no more crying, death or sickness. He wants us to share in His kingdom..because of Jesus Christ we are able to be heirs..Heirs of Heaven..God's Kingdom and all that is within it..Nothing barred...but then it is His Will be done..Man oh Man..God's ways are not ours ..they are truly better ...but we just don't always see it that way. To talk to God and say from our heart "may your will be done" I know i can hear with me groaning and sometimes screaming ..as if I know better than God ..it amazes me when i get into that attitude..not that I get there but the mentality of it all..I mean me a puny human knows things more than God..the whole thing is so humbling ..yet God continues to love me!!
Amazing!!

For God's will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven..Heaven is good ..earth is pretty evil and sad anymore..Why did Jesus say that when He knew that sin brought death? and that Jesus came to die on the cross for our sins so we could have relationship with no separation with the Father? I have always seemed to separate the heaven and earth..for God's will was being done in Heaven only and earth was to imitate..yet how could it do that as it was sinful and dying?? I don't think I am "seeing" what this all about..for a second I thought..God is love..Heaven is eternity in fellowship with Him which would be love..to be here on earth would mean to continue to partake in God's love for us. His will to be done on earth ..as it is in Heaven..His will is for us to have relationship with Him ..to be born again..I don't think Heaven is about THINGS..or our status and rewards..how many times through the years I have been told by others that they are expecting crowned jewels for what they have done for God by the # of souls saved by them..Maybe I am wrong..I know I have had this conversation with God and told Him if heaven was like the church here on earth I don't want to go..I want to be able to KNOW GOD for who He is and Praise Him.. I want to experience His love for me without any blemishes..I want to be able to sit on His knee or run through a field and laugh with Him..I want to know Father God how He wants me to know Him..no more fear or false beliefs..To see Him no longer dimly..as the Bible says we are just passing through here..earth is not our Home..

I do not know why we have sorrows and pain..and why bad things happen to good people..Jesus suffered alot ..why do we think we should not have to if the Son of God did..??But the Truth is He is God --He should be able to stop this stuff..It goes back to "we are not God" and "our ways are not His" ..He sees the total picture..and once we are in eternity ..there will be no more tears or sorrow..it doesn't always help when one is hurting..even Jesus understands when He said"my God .MY God why have you forsaken me? prior to dying on the cross..BUT the good news is ..HE AROSE from the dead..GOD was on the scene and never left..If Jesus had never died --He never would have come alive to give us the hope that He lives so also shall we!!!