Luk 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
We occasionally sing this song that has this chorus:
“And the time to be happy is now
And the place to be happy is here
And the way to be happy is to make someone happy
and to have a little heaven down here!”
In the Lord’s prayer , Jesus taught his disciples to pray that his ” Kingdom may come and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is a present reality waiting a fuller future consummation. This statement expresses the paradox of God’s rule which will be made complete with the second coming, but present now in the lives of believers. ( Bible commentary, HTML) The kingdom of God is within and among us as God’s people.
The kingdom of God is both a present reality and a future hope. In the midst of a chaos , Hullabaloos, uncertainties and hopelessness of what may be going on around our “small world”, believers can experience a “taste” of heaven. All that we need to do is to pray that ” His kingdom comes”. His kingdom comes with a package of heavenly interventions, provisions, peace and joy enabling us to have a ” little ” heaven down here.
Further readings:
Mat 4:17
Mat 12:28
Luk 17:21
🙏 Blessed weekend 🙏