Maybe it was the red-eye flight from Phoenix last night. Maybe it was going from 80 degree sunshine to 20 degree spitting snow. Or maybe it was a 1:00 am bedtime after the late flight, or the lack of enough caffeine to jump start the day. Or maybe it was the outcome in New Hampshire as the drama of the year moves south to the Carolinas. Or maybe it was reading Psalm 51 and having ashes smeared on my forehead in chapel this morning on this Ash Wednesday.
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Your Kingdom Come
Words can get us in trouble.
Depending on where they are spoken, who is speaking them, who they are spoken to, and the consequences involved, words can radically change our life.
Go on an airplane and say, “I have a bomb.” Your life will be different. Stand in front of an altar with the one you love and say, “For better for worse, for richer or poorer, I do.” Raise your right hand in a court of law and say, “I solemnly swear to tell the truth.” Words can rearrange your life.
But I believe the most life-altering, radical, dangerous, consequential words we can say are recorded in the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray – “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Now I know we can say these words without meaning them, and not much happens, except we get more used to praying things we don’t really mean.
