“Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10 NIV)
"On earth as it is in heaven." Jesus' prayer was, "Make up there come down here." Make things down here run the way they do up there.
Jesus told us to pray, "Bring heaven down here." We begin with our body, our mind, our appetites. Then it spreads to the office, our family, our neighborhood, our church, our country.
God doesn't reveal Himself to us just to make us happy or to deliver us from loneliness. He also comes to us so that we can in turn be conduits of His presence to other people. He invites us to join Him in making things down here the way they are up there.
This news is the best news the human race has ever heard. It is not just good news for the world around us; it is good news for us. Psychologist Viktor Frankl wrote, "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him."
This is maybe the most dangerous, exciting, life-altering prayer a human being can pray: "God make up there come down here." Every time you pray it, your life becomes Beth-el, the place where God dwells.
-- John Ortberg in “God Is Closer Than You Think”
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