“Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” – Jesus in Matthew 6:10
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” – Jesus in Mark 2:17b
Jesus came to bring the mission, message, and power of heaven to earth, and all three point to one thing — that the lost and broken would find healing and wholeness in Him. When Jesus prayed, “Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” we must pay close attention to the short phrase “as it is.” In this phrase is the key to understanding the mission, message, and power of the gospel that brings wholeness to the world.
To say “as it is” implies a mirror image — an authentic replica — a signpost of what the atmosphere of heaven is — and that atmosphere appearing here and there all about the earth. While we await the kingdom of God to come in the future at the resurrection, we anticipate sightings of this kingdom now, in and through the lives of the lost and broken.
Jesus was about the business of His Father, and that work was to bring wholeness to the world. Throughout the gospels and the record of the acts of the early believers, we see healing that restores people to a state of wholeness. Whether the woman with the issue of blood, the servant of the Roman centurion, the man lowered through the roof of the home where Jesus was teaching, the ten lepers, or the paralytic beggar at the Jerusalem gate called beautiful, the result was always the same — restoration to a state of what should be.
Jesus was the doctor who brought healing and wholeness to the sick. He still intends to do this work today through His children — His beloved believers who are on a mission to spread this wholeness.
Perhaps we get sidetracked and focus on other aspects of life in Christ that, while all good, do not reach into the venue of bringing wholeness to the world. We are to be agents of this wholeness in our evangelism, discipleship, ministries, and messages. The question we must ask ourselves is, “Are the lost and broken finding wholeness in Jesus?” But how does this happen? Again, we look to Jesus.
In Matthew 10:7–8 we read, “As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.’”