Your Kingdom Come

YOUR KINGDOM COME. MATTHEW 6.10.

I am sure you have prayed now and again, “Your kingdom come”, as I have. Let us pause for a moment and think about what we have been praying for. Are we really concerned about the kingdom of God? Do you really want and expect God’s kingdom to come? Or are you too involved with this world that you don’t have any time to care about God and His Kingdom? It may be quite natural because what you see is what you are concerned about and what affects you is what is important to you. But we, as God children and people of God, need to develop a Kingdom perspective. If not, it is meaningless to profess that you are a Christian!

Jesus came “proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. “The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!” We have repented and believed the good news. Therefore our lives are to be different from the people of this world. Our priority should be ‘the kingdom of God’ and not this world. Jesus saw that the Jews, the ‘then people of God’, were as anxious and as involved with the things of this life as the pagans who had no God. He warned them and said, “Do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Mt 6.31-34).

Jesus wants us to live our ordinary lives in this world. But He wants us to be God’s kingdom-minded and involved in it. Before He ascended to the Father, He prayed, “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world” (Jn 17.15-17).

You might not have been mindful about the Kingdom of God because of your preoccupation with this present world. But the very reason why the Lord included, “Let Your kingdom come”, in that short model prayer, compels you to make it the priority of your daily life. Remember, Jesus as a boy of twelve told His mother Mary, “Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"(Lk 2.49). It is time that you take heed and do things that show you belong to God and not to this world!

Dear believer, you will never be a loser if you obey the Lord and begin to seek first the kingdom of God and start living as its citizen doing God’s will. When you do that, the promise of the Lord to you is “all the things you need in this world will be given to you” – for your Father knows what you need.

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, in the midst of all the hurry burry of this life, help me to be mindful of the fact that I belong to Your kingdom and that I must always be careful to do things to please You and advance Your kingdom. Amen.