Your Will Be Done

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. – Matthew 6:10

What would happen if we prayed to God asking for His promises to become realities in our lives? I’m not playing a mental exercise to stretch the limits of what our desires are for God, rather, I’m suggesting that we should be praying the will of God to unfold in our lives. I know it’s a little abstract right now so allow me to expound on this thought.

When Jesus teaches his disciples to pray, “your kingdom come,” he is instructing them to pray with the precision of a building blueprint. Jesus is saying God has specific plans in heaven that are unfolded and realities, those realities should become manifest in our lives here and now.

God’s plans for our lives aren’t the same abstract generalities we use to speak of concept ideas we’re trying to sell; they are tangible objects designed specifically for a purpose. This raises the question of how can we specifically know what God’s plans are that we can pray about them specifically.

In fact, this may be an abstract exercise to those of us who kind of live life without any semblance of purpose. So to those of us who don’t have a clue to where they are going, you need to pray specifically for God to show you where you should be headed. If you know where you should be headed already because you chose a career path, then you should be asking God where it is He is working so that you can experience His kingdom.

For those of us who are a little older and know where we’re going but don’t know who you’re going there with, you need to pray specifically for the person God chooses you to journey life with. People don’t just fall in your lap and when they do, it’s usually the wrong person, don’t waste your time with trying out people like you try out clothes at the mall. There are people who come in and out of your life and that’s okay, but there are people who stick around for the long haul.

God has a specific plan for these things and we should be praying for these things in our lives because God wants to give it to us, but we have to want it. Just imagine your life clicking on every cylinder God wants for you.

He knows what that looks like, the question is do want it to click or are we okay living aimlessly to nowhere? Pray God’s will be done in our lives and we’ll get a taste of heaven every single moment of our lives.

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