His kingdom come, His will be done...

Sometimes God uses the natural things to speak about spiritual things. Hosea was a man of God, a prophet. God told him to marry a prostitute to show how unfaithful Israel was to God. My wife had a dream years ago that she was the bride, she was in the ceremony, and Jesus was the bridegroom. Recently she had cancer, she is now cancer free, but not from a miraculous healing, but through a painful sugary that was like a car wreck, and left her badly damaged. My mom a few years before had cancer and they gave her chemo, and she dies a slow painful death. This is never God's will, but we in the Church are such a mutilated, disjointed mess, that we have lost sight of the intimacy we are to have with Christ, where, "His kingdom come, His will be done, on earth as it is in heaven," is actually fulfilled. If His prayer is a prayer that is actually true, then are we supposed to be living in this world as if we are of this world? Or are we simply in this world, and not supposed to be of it? Is there cancer in heaven? Do people get mutilated in heaven? If we suffer for Christ, and die because we believe in Him, then we are blessed because we suffer for His Names sake, but if we contract some kind of deadly disease, and we die a slow painful death, that is not the same, nor is it God's will according to scripture. In James it teaches us to call together the elders of the church and pray for the sick that they may be healed. "And the prayer in faith will heal the sick." Mark 16, "and these signs will follow...they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover..." that's the Lords will, so what has happened to the Church, His body that is supposed to be doing these things? What if the church is in need of a healing. What if the structure is so dismembered that we can't, and aren't being that body that God intended, "from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love." (Ephesians 4:16) So why are we not fitly joined together? We are so busy building our own version of His kingdom, we have left His building site and gone onto our own. Leaders are supposed to be servants, not kingdom builders. We live as if we are the ones to be served, and not the ones to be serving. Like the rich young ruler who came to Jesus and asked, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus responded, "You know the commandments...." " I have kept them from youth." The ruler said. Jesus respond, knowing his heart, "One thing you lack, go and sell all you have, and give to the poor." (Mark 10:17-27) But the rich young ruler went away for he was very rich. Most of the leaders in the church are rich when compared to others in the world. Many of our famous preachers drive fancy cars and live in mansions, while many of their flock live in poverty. This is not the root of all evil, but it is the root of much of it. (1 Tim 6:10) We in leadership have become fat and lazy, gluttony not one of the things you hear preached about in our churches. (I am as guilty as anyone, loving my coffee flavored Haagen Dazs ice cream way to much) So if we are an undisciplined, train wreck, that brings diseases on His body, then what else should we see, but rampant sin, sickness and the like that has befallen His body? Maybe we've been building the wrong kingdom all along. Now let it be "His Kingdom come, His will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Then we can ask, "Give us this day our daily bread, (What we need, and there are so many starving in the world) forgive us our trespasses, (We seem to be holding on to a lot of sin) as we forgive those who trespass against us. (We seem to not be such a forgiving church when we live for ourselves) Let us pray, "Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." And then, let us live it.