Thought for the Week: What love can do

Philip Parratt reflects on what love can do

by Philip Parratt 9th June 2017

At Meeting for Worship recently a Friend read from Romans 7 on sin and it got me thinking about the words ‘forgive us our trespasses’… and then ‘thy kingdom come’. The kingdom that Jesus lived in was ruled from Rome by a polytheistic state. His aspiration was a kingdom ruled by God, as he conceived God, and it seems unlikely that the world of his ambition stretched much beyond the lands around him. When the prayer seeks ‘Thy kingdom come’ it seeks a world whose religious dispensation is that of Jesus.