10/21/2026
Jesus taught us to pray,
“On earth as it is in heaven.”
— Matthew 6:10
That wasn’t poetry for a beautiful pre-dinner prayer.
It was an assignment.
Because if Heaven is the standard, then some things become painfully clear.
No hunger.
“They will never hunger again…” — Revelation 7:16
No sickness. No pain. No death.
No disposable people.
No outsiders.
No ethnic hierarchy.
Just “every nation, tribe, people, and language” standing together before God.
— Revelation 7:9
No moral caste system.
No “us vs. them.”
No religious sin scoreboard.
Just grace. Belonging.
Mercy. Unity. Love.
And... a whole lot of redeemed sinners standing shoulder to shoulder because none of us got there by earning it.
So when Christians pray the Lord's prayer while defending attitudes, systems, policies, or ideologies that keep people hungry, discarded, excluded, or dehumanized…
that isn’t faith.
It’s performance.
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”
— Jesus, (Matthew 15:8)
Jesus didn’t teach us this prayer so we could sound spiritual. He taught it because God’s will done in Heaven is the very thing we’re called to pursue on Earth.
That’s why Jesus fed the hungry.
Healed the sick.
Touched the outcast.
Welcomed the foreigner.
Defended the vulnerable.
And said whatever we do for “the least of these,” we do for Him.
— Matthew 25:35–40
If God’s will is done perfectly in Heaven... then anything that contradicts that reality on Earth should bother the people who claim to follow Jesus.
The uncomfortable truth is this:
If we actually meant that prayer, our priorities would look different.
Our churches would look different.
And yes, our politics would look different.
Maybe the problem isn't that we don't understand God's will.
Maybe the problem is that we've become really good at praying for it...
while finding every excuse not to live it.