We have watched the first two episodes of Outcasts, BBC's new scifi drama. A group of people are trying to set up home on planet Carpathia, as things have got so bad on earth. Mind you, setting up a new society isn't easy, as the programme explores.
A good manifesto for them could well be the "sermon on the mount" - words of Jesus as recorded in Matthew chapters 5 to 7 in the Bible. In it he tells us to pray:
Our Father in heaven,
may your name be hallowed
may your kingdom come
may your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
I think the "on earth as it is in heaven" applies to all of the three statements above it. Not a bad prayer for the inhabitants of Forthaven, their settlement on the new planet. Although, of course they would have to change the prayer to "on Carpathia ..."
But it's an important prayer for us, each day, here on planet earth. We are praying that our society may be modelled more and more on God's heavenly order. In other words, the coming of God's kingdom here on earth.
If you pray the Lord's Prayer, keep praying!
A big and well deserved Amen to that Eric, The most important prayer of all shared by christians everywhere. The Lords Prayer and let thy will be done. Amen
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