As it is in Heaven
We as believers make statements like, I wonder what Heaven will be like? Or I am sure they are having a good time in Heaven, speaking of a loved one who has passed on. But have we really stopped and considered what Jesus said in the prayer that we call the Lord’s prayer?
Matthew 6:9 "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth."
Thy will be done on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. If we do not know how it is in heaven, as we usually declare to one another, then how can His will be done on earth as it is in heaven? How would it be possible? Included in God’s will is that His Kingdom would come on earth or in the earth according to the translation you may read, as it is in heaven. Let’s look at God’s will by the scripture.
Ephesians 1:9 “making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him 10 unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,”
The mystery of God’s will is to sum up all things in Christ. ALL THINGS! That says it all, correct? We can spend eternity knowing this but let us consider it right now. All things in Heaven and in Earth even in Him. Now when we say this, consider first that Paul wrote this to the church. He makes a point of it in the first verse that this is written to the Church, the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus. With that said, all things according to the Church are to be as it is in Christ Jesus. This is how it is in Heaven upon the earth.
Let me be plain. How it is in Heaven is how it is in Christ Jesus. Heavenly places are defined by Him, not by our imaginations or how we think they are. I’m not talking about fruit trees here. I’m talking about the divine nature of the Lamb. There could be fruit trees. There could be green grass. You could have a body, but none of that would be as it is in Heaven. I’ve made a statement for years. If we live forever, but don’t have our minds and hearts changed is that Heaven? I would say it is not. If I do not take on the mind of Christ, if I do not take on His divine nature, it would not be as it is in Heaven.
So, as we know Him, we know what is Heavenly. When we live in Him in this present earth, we manifest that which is in Heaven in the earth. Our earthen vessels are given that we who are His may manifest Him in the earth. This is the Kingdom coming from Heaven upon Earth. This is it. Christ revealed and seen in you and me, and then that of Him which is revealed and seen made real that we live out of Him. This is God’s will coming on earth. Christ, the Heavenly One revealed, and manifest in the earth by the Church. Glory to God!
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