In a word, we are apt to fancy that man, not God, is the
master of this earth on which we live, and that men have no king over
them in heaven.
The Lord's Prayer tells us that men HAVE a king over them in heaven, and
that that king is a Father likewise--a Father whose name will one day be
hallowed above all names. That the world will not always go on as it
goes on now, but that the Father's kingdom will come. That above the
will of man, there is a will of God, which must be done, and therefore
will be done some day. In a word, the Lord's Prayer tells us that this
world is under a Divine government; that the Lord, even Jesus Christ our
Saviour, is King, be the people never so impatient. That He sitteth
between the cherubim, master of all the powers of nature, be the earth
never so unquiet. That His power loves justice. That He has prepared
equity. That He has executed, and therefore will execute to the end,
judgment and righteousness in the earth. That Christ reigns in justice
and in love. That He has for those who disobey His laws the most
terrible penalties; for those who obey them blessings such as eye hath
not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to
conceive.
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