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THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Isaiah 11:6-9

Matthew 6:9-10

 

Think of our Saviour’s

return with longing.

 

THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH
 
Did you ever consider the words of the LORD’S PRAYER, the one and only prayer that He commanded believers to pray? What are we asking for when we say: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:10)?
 
Did you ever appreciate that since God’s will has been violated on earth since the Fall, this LORD’S PRAYER will be totally frustrated if our Lord Jesus does not establish His Millennial Kingdom ON EARTH?
 
Did you ever realise that if our Lord, after His devastating victory at Armageddon (Zech 12; Rev 16), should gather His forces and return to heaven, the story of man on earth will be one of rebellion to the end, and GOD’S will will NEVER be done “in earth as it is in heaven”?
 
If that be the case, then for 2,000 years the church has prayed the LORD’S PRAYER in vain, if indeed our Lord did leave us a vain prayer. But God forbid. Our Lord knows the end from the beginning. He comes to redeem mankind and the whole creation so that the earth is created “not in vain” (Isa 45:18).
 
In His omniscient wisdom, Jesus commanded us in Matthew 6:9-10 to pray: “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” He did it with the full knowledge that our prayer will be fully answered, by Himself and the Father, by His redemptive sacrifice on the cross. “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matt 28:18). Praise God! When Christ reigns on earth with His saints, for the first time since Eden, God’s will shall be done, ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN.
 
THOUGHT: The LORD’S PRAYER shall be answered.
PRAYER: I thank Thee, Father, that Thou art a God of Thy Word. Grant me faith to believe and trust Thy Word.

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