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| from the Lord's Prayer Matthew 6: 9-13 |
This blog post is offered by Mary Katherine May.
Pondering thoughts and wondering: God is omnipresent. God is everywhere. Because God is everywhere then what is the "image" in which God created people? Is then God's image an identifiable human form? Or, is being in the image of God who we are and not what we are? The Bible says as much in 1Samuel 16:7 and John 7:24. God does not look at outward appearance but what is within, or perhaps whether the image in which we were created is open or closed off.
Again, God is everywhere. Is then God's Kingdom where He is or in some far out place. Or, is the Kingdom of God more than only a physical place? In Luke 17 the Pharisees asked when the Kingdom of God will come, and Jesus replied, "The Kingdom of God is within you." What does it then mean when we pray, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven? Is the Kingdom coming only in the future when Christ returns or is it also something else? How can God's Kingdom be only something that comes if God is omnipresent?
Is it possible that praying, "Thy Kingdom come..." means that when people turn their hearts to God the Kingdom of God in God's omnipresence actively does the will of God? "Thy will be done" which we ask in the Lord's Prayer is just possibly God's spiritual force actively pursuing His will through each person who has committed their own life to Him. As it says in 1John,
God is love. Recognizing that being made in God's image, committing one's own life to God, the Kingdom of God living within moves in cooperation with our own will, the Holy Will of God's love leading the way. This may be where the answer lies. It is important to remember that in life there is a spiritual presence and spiritual realm in operation. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. What an awesomely wonderful role we have been given by God!
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