May your kingdom come, may your will be done as in heaven, so on earth.—Matthew 6:10
Brainy Tip: Our thoughts change our brain, impacting our health and the world around us.
We are God’s masterpieces, created in his image. We are designed to reflect his glory into the world. We were created to bring heaven to earth.
This all sounds wonderfully grand, of course, but how do we do this? How do we bring heaven to earth, as the Lord’s Prayer says? What does this look like as we go about our daily activities?
When we start to think with the mind of the Messiah, renewing our minds and taking thoughts captive with the help of the Holy Spirit, we change our worldview to one of love—to the worldview of heaven. And as we plant this way of thinking deep into our nonconscious minds by directing our attention and meditating on the Word, we change the structure of our brains in a positive direction. This transformation affects our future thoughts, words, and actions, which impact our environment as we interact with the world around us. In effect, we bring heaven to earth! Being truly human is essentially about colonizing the world with the culture of heaven, which we can do because we are created in the image of God.