When Jesus taught us to pray that His Kingdom would come and His Fathers will be done in earth as it is in heaven, Jesus was not making a pious, pseudo religious statement. He was actually dramatically flipping common prayer on its head. This is an upside down, backwards from human, mentality. It is far more natural for me to pray that God would submit to the wants and needs of my kingdoms. One of the only hopes I have of being an overcomer in deed is to have this pilgrim mindset. All my efforts need to be the result of a heart that cries, weeps, pleads, and yearns for the coming of the Kingdom of Christ and this is not a yearning for my benefit by the way, the yearning is for His sake, rather than mine. I want this kingdom in two ways…I want the kingdom to come into the hearts of the dead, that they may be raised into the life which is Christ, and I want the physical reign of my Lord more than any other thing. I am posting this video because, once again, Pastor Piper says so well what ought to be said to those of us who have maintained that materialism is somehow Christian. We do this through very many incorrect associations. Associations which I hope to write about some day.
Grant us Lord, as your children the desire to pray this along with the saints of old, and may our praying for it change our hearts that we may live like we believe it, not wasting our lives on those things which perish…but hastening the day of your return, but living as if eternity were NOW!
