This is an insight scoop just for you.

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It is God’s will for us to ask God for his kingdom to come.

 

When I wanted my children to go to bed at 8:00 pm, I asked them if they would like to go to bed by 7:30 pm or 8:00 pm?

 

They unanimously agreed and answered: “8:00 pm.”

 

We agreed together on the hour that I originally wanted them to go to bed. When the time comes to go to bed there is no need for negotiations as if we did not already agree together in the first place.

 

Call it Psychology, call it training, call it parenting or whatever you wish, but you must admit that a parent is within his sovereignty as a parent to set the bed time convenient to all involved with some knowledge of the end from the beginning.

 

Furthermore, you shall agree with me that it is well within the rights as the head of the household to make such domestic rules. You shall also agree without a doubt that at bed time it is also a time to stop playing in order to do our own will and to gladly do the common will of the family which was decided with the dignity of the children participating “as equals” with the father in the decision making.

 

Before you give anyone credit for the “Solomonic wisdom” of the father, the proper question to ask at this time is, “Where does a father get such a wisdom?”

 

I find no other place but in “The Lord’s Prayer” when Jesus asked us to repeat after him, “Our Father who art in Heaven.” 

 

Parenting does not start with Benjamin Spock, Sigmund Freud, Pavlov or Rubinstein but back in the garden at the cool of the day, down to the mountain of transfiguration, passing through the tent of the Covenant keeping God of Abraham, to the smaller tents of the desert wandering of the exodus, and to the many exciting times of crisis and captive seasons. All of this with great amount tears and laughter at the knowledge that “Someone greater than my fears loves me and he knows the end from the beginning.”

 

This holy religion of ours is designed for love and enjoyment forever. BUT even in our many dry desert experiences and in times of crisis when the abundance of tears like rivers have inundated our beds at night, and where our Father in Heaven seems to be absent, if it were not for his arms like a pillow under our heads he makes us rest as a child tired of crying.

 

Please sympathize with me because all I am trying to say is, “Jesus is dying to return for us.” In fact, he died and resurrected in order to return soon, but he will not return unless we agree with him in the hour of his return and he comes as the result of our prayers.

 

“Your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as in Heaven.”

 

This is not to say that you or I have the power to accelerate by our obedience or delay his return by our disobedience. No. But it is God’s will to make us participants in his return. “Our bedtime.” “Our rest.”

 

This Pandemic as hard as it has been, should not make us nearsighted and see nothing but the top of our mask. Peek over your mask and see how God is dealing with all and every one of us on planet Earth. It is in a very personal, individual, monogamous and intimate relationship as if each one of us is the only one with whom he is having a love affair.

 

God can do that because he is God and is above the law.

God is not a Sultan with large harem and many wives and neither are you just a plain looking Leah, but each one of us are the beloved Rachel of Jesus the son of Jacob.

 

Let us repeat after Jesus together with a focused prayer, “Your Kingdom come.”

God has invited you to take part in the time of your rest, “Our Bedtime.”

Are you weary and overburdened? Then, come to Jesus! Agree with God in the mind of Jesus and come so that Jesus has put all things a prayer away.

 

Do you remember when you fell in love with the love of your life and how in fear you asked for her hand in marriage? Jesus is the lover of our souls and he is asking us to ask him for his return.

 

ASK!!!!

 

This is your Sunday itinerant preacher on duty. After 4:00 hours of deep sleep he is bright eyed and bushy tailed asking you to say, “Yes Jesus.” “Come.” 

 

Gerardo Gutierrez.

 

Photo.  In Calcutta India, over Mother Teresa's Tomb