Kingdom Thoughts, Day 2
I emailed my pastors today for resources having to do with the kingdom. Looking forward to getting my hands on something to sort of guide me in this journey.
If any of you have suggestions, please leave a comment.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
What does this mean? Like everything Jesus says, I think it is to be taken on several levels. It could be very simple, and probably is. Yet to wrap it shut with a familiar, simple explanation and tie it with a pretty bow within the box of the Lord's prayer might mean we never explore multiple facets of the meaning of this one phrase.
What are you thinking?
If any of you have suggestions, please leave a comment.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
What does this mean? Like everything Jesus says, I think it is to be taken on several levels. It could be very simple, and probably is. Yet to wrap it shut with a familiar, simple explanation and tie it with a pretty bow within the box of the Lord's prayer might mean we never explore multiple facets of the meaning of this one phrase.
What are you thinking?
posted by Zoanna at
8:51 PM
1 Comments:
It's a risk that it could be made too simple and so lose the enduring power to engage the imagination.
But we could at least make some preliminary observations, couldn't we? Where would I begin? I think I'm intrigued by the way that the prayer in Luke's gospel has simply "Your kingdom come" and goes immediately onto "give us today our daily bread." So I tend to think that 'your will be done on earth as in heaven' is a kind of explanatory amplification, like happens in a lot of psalms. So at this point we need to think about how God might refract partial expressions of God's will into a world which is still waiting a complete transformation and a fulness of the expression of God's desire for a whole, joyous, loving and still-ever-creative new creation. Our big task in prayer at this point becomes discerning how necessarily-partial expressions of the Ultimate can be brought to bear in the rough and tumble of human life under the shadow of Adam's fall.
It gets a mention in the book 'Praying the Pattern' which is about the practices of praying the Lord's prayer. See for further details http://abbeynous.schtuff.com
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