...on Earth as it is in Heaven...

This particular snippet of the Lord's prayer made me really think about how I perceive Heaven.  Basically, for me to understand how our roles on Earth differ from that of Heaven, it became necessary for me to think about it.  Maybe you might want to also.  For me, I often think about the stuff I'll DO in while in Heaven and sometimes I wonder if I'll ever get bored there.  And then there's that whole doing God's will thing; it begs the question, how is God's will lived out in Heaven.  Or stated another way, what is there to be done in Heaven?

But didn't God design us each in a way to fulfill a certain function?  A function in the body, or community, or church (whatever you want to call it)?  I don't think that God wanted us to become alike in every way.  Certainly there are behaviors that we all ought to replicate like read our Bible, pray, etc., but being a part of the body doesn't mean we conform to each other in every way.  We weren't designed that way.  When we realize that God has relentlessly persued us with His love and grace and peace, we ought to be freed to be the person God created us to be in the first place.

So, what if we looked at God's will for us is to be the body?  And in Heaven, the body functions properly while here on Earth there are some kinks to work out.  What if we were more focused on being the body rather than doing things.  Being versus doing.  Does being the body mean we 'do' stuff?  Sure it does.  But we don't do it for the sake of doing it.  We do things in an effort to be the body. 

Maybe that's why the story of Mary and Martha is such a powerful one.  That story if often used to illustrate how we can miss what's important to us as followers of Christ; and rightly so.  But here we also see that Mary was focued on being and Martha on doing.  Were there things that Mary 'did' while 'being'?  Of course. 

Jesus also reminded Martha that Mary had chosen what was better.  God's will being done on Earth as it is in Heaven just might be a command for us to be the body of Christ rather than doing things to become it.

We already are.

We just need to start living it.