Lord's Prayer Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Third Petition=== {{redirect|Thy will be done|the American heavy metal band|Thy Will Be Done|the 2015 Nigerian film|Thy Will Be Done (film)}} {{Blockquote | Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven:}} {{see also|Matthew 6:10}} According to [[William Barclay (theologian)|William Barclay]], this phrase is a couplet with the same meaning as "Thy kingdom come." Barclay argues: "The kingdom is a state of things on earth in which God's will is as perfectly done as it is in heaven. ...To do the will of God and to be in the Kingdom of God are one and the same thing."<ref>{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6SslPwAACAAJ |title=The Mind of Jesus |last=Barclay|first= William |date= 1976-01-28|publisher= Harper Collins |isbn= 978-0-06060451-6}}</ref> [[John Ortberg]] interprets this phrase as follows: "Many people think our job is to get my [[afterlife]] destination taken care of, then tread water till we all get ejected and God comes back and torches this place. But Jesus never told anybody β neither his disciples nor us β to pray, 'Get me out of here so I can go up there.' His prayer was, 'Make up there come down here.' Make things down here run the way they do up there."<ref name= "Ortberg 176">Ortberg, John Ortberg. "God is Closer Than You Think". Zondervan, 2005, p. 176.</ref> The request that "thy will be done" is God's invitation to "join him in making things down here the way they are up there".<ref name= "Ortberg 176" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page