"Thy Kingdom Come" Series

"Thy Kingdom come" is a realistic prayer. Some people view faith and prayer as some sort of emotional escape from reality. Karl Marx called religion the "opiate of the masses". Yet when we pray, it is not to escape reality, but to find it. The problem is, what we see around us is not true reality. We are journeying to the Kingdom, our true home, and this world is but a shadow of the reality that awaits us. Faith is not a leap into the dark, but a leap into the light. We belong to God’s Kingdom, not the "shadowlands" of this world. Gordon Hugenberger (of Park St Church, Boston) calls this petition a "request for eternity to break into the present."

Conclusion: We obtain this Kingdom by trusting Christ as our King, by receiving Him as our Lord. Then whenever we pray the Lord’s Prayer we indicate our desire for the dominion of God and the success of the Gospel. We have a Kingdom worth praying for! One day, yet future, the forces of evil will be finally routed by the host of heaven. In the meantime, we pray, "Thy Kingdom come."