His will there, and here?

So it’s been a while since I have blogged.  Some people tend to process things by blogging, I tend to talk about things with every man and his dog and then somehow expect I will blog about it once the issue has already been resolved in my mind, no wonder I haven’t written anything for ages.  I also get insecure about my poor spelling, lack of grammar or intellectual data to back up my many very general statements.

So…I have decided to get over myself, I don’t want to be an entertainer keeping everyone happy, I don’t want to register as one of the top 10 bloggers in the world, I just want to write a few things down, I want to add my voice to the other 240,000 or so other wordpress voices on the internet right now, I just want to take advantage of my right to rant,  isn’t that what a blog is meant to be about?  I thought so, so let’s get on with it.

For a long time now, say 3 or 4 months I have been stuck on the verse in the middle of the Lord’s Prayer Matthew 6:10

10your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I’m not a theologian but I do know often in modernity we have tried to pull scriptures apart so much we have missed much the simple message.  Just taking this on face value  there are some pretty hefty implications to what Jesus is saying here.  If it wasn’t Jesus saying this I would be tempted to write it off, but this is actually one line in the rather short prayer Jesus told us to use when he told us “how we should pray”.

My first thought is “that’s cool Jesus has told us to expect God’s will to be done on earth to the same degree it is done in Heaven” but then my second thought is “what is God’s will exactly, will I even like it?  Would it disturb the stability I have created for myself?”
All in all I recon it’s a good thing, how can it not be?  A loving merciful God wants to see His will, His Kingdom, functioning here on earth not just in Heaven (despite what you may have indirectly learnt in Sunday school, or Christian education classes God isn’t just trying to save us from ).

So it follows does it not that if there is no fighting in Heaven (where ever that is anyhow) then it’s possible to have no fighting here on earth, if there is no sickness in Heaven then it’s also possible to somehow have no sickness here on earth, and if there are no tears in Heaven then there are a myriad of other things that God doesn’t want here on earth (all the things that make people cry).  I don’t know exactly?  I don’t get it. I have been churning this stuff over for a while, and reached few conclusions, maybe that is why this question/thought process has ended up in a blog.  I don’t necessarily believe God’s will is ever going to be fully functioning in this life but I do feel inspired to pursue more of his “Kingdom coming” which is going to mean understanding more of what exactly his Kingdom is.  One thing I have learnt is it doesn’t look anything like the Kingdoms we know, it’s one that advances through subversive measures, by peace, not violence using love as it’s fuel.