Recently I read an article about Ms. Corrie ten Boom. In it she was telling how difficult it was to watch the filming of the movie, The Hiding Place. It brought back memories of the suffering that she and her family went through during the Holocaust. As she was experiencing this she was talking to the Lord. “Lord, I cannot go through this again…to see my family suffer…Then I got an encouragement from the Lord: ‘It was the start of your suffering, but now you can see it was the start of work in My Kingdom, because now I have used you….to bring the Gospel to many,
many people…’” *
When we pray those words “Thy Kingdom Come” are we willing to accept what it may mean for us? For Corrie ten Boom it meant giving up all she knew of her life. It meant showing the world God’s Kingdom by her actions of loving and forgiving those who had imprisoned her and killed her family.
This prayer may mean the same for us at some point, but what might “Thy Kingdom Come” look like for us as followers of God today? How are we walking out the Kingdom of God in everyday life with those to whom we minister, with our families and those with ministries of like precious faith to whom we are connected? How are we allowing the Kingdom of God to reign in our “here and now?”
When we pray those words, let us remember that God’s Kingdom is not only future but now.
Where is the place for improvement in our lives? What is one thing you can do today to better live out those words, “Thy Kingdom Come?”
*Corrie ten Boom, Corrie, The Lives She’s Touched Corrie ten Boom museum, https://www.facebook.com/corrietenboommuseum/
July 18, 2016
