Pretty much every day I pray
these words when I use the Lord’s Prayer in my own devotions. ‘Your kingdom come’.
It is a prayer that God’s rule will be established and that his realm would arrive.
And here we return to a theme to
which I often refer, which is a key part of my theology, faith and spirituality,
and which is very much part of Advent reflection. The affirmation that God’s kingdom
is here but also not yet.
Or to put it another way, we
await the full arrival of God’s coming Kingdom, but nonetheless, that coming
kingdom has already come in Christ and is constantly breaking into the here and
now.
The Kingdom has come and the Kingdom
will come and meanwhile we live in these ‘in-between’ times, with all their
confusion, frustration and challenge, and yet also with all the hope, as even
now the coming Kingdom is breaking in.
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