Looking Forward to the Kingdom!

Matthew 6:10
your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

The next phrase prayed in the Lord's prayer is to pray that the Lord's Kingdom would come. The coming of the Kingdom was something which was often prophesied about in the Old Testament. John the Baptist preached about it and was looking forward to its coming.

Matthew 3:2
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near."

As Lord was teaching the disciples to pray, the idea of the kingdom was something that the disciples were still coming to grip with. Jesus later on teaches in parables (matthew 13) so that those who are able to hear will hear what he has to say on the kingdom. Those who are spiritually hard of hearing will be closed to what he is saying. To those who were receptive and accepted the message which Jesus brought they will begin to live in the Kingdom, where Jesus is the messianic King. But yet there is a future element which we will never truly know or experience til we are reunited with the Lord in glory. So we pray Father let your kingdom come!