Hello again!
“Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven” Matthew 6:10 NIV
Holiness is the absence of sin and God and Heaven are Holy. God will not dwell in the presence of sin. SO….if Jesus said to pray, “On earth as it is in Heaven,” modeled in His Sermon on the Mount, (6:9) then Heavenly things are possible on earth.
Ask yourself, “What in Heaven do I long for on earth?” (Be reasonable and know that those loved ones really don’t want to leave there and come back here.) I long for God’s power and Holiness to dwell with me on earth just a powerfully as I know it will when my address is Heaven. I can’t create a perfect earth, but I can pray for a Holy me on earth and live with the confident, overcoming victory I know I will realize when I reside there. The essence of Heaven is a space filled with God’s love, perfect justice and the absence of things that harm and create fear and sorrow.
Today I ask God fill me, my space, with His love and Holiness, empowering my encounters to be as though I was reaching down with God’s touch rather than my own.
Bring Heaven to earth. It is possible or Jesus wouldn’t have said so.
Love,
Gretchen