Chances are you’ve heard the word “shalom”. It’s most often thought of as a greeting, or a synonym for “peace”, which it is…in part. But shalom goes beyond that. It’s more like “all as it should be”.
Completeness. Wholeness. Fullness. Harmony. Heaven on earth.
The phrase ‘let heaven come’ is the ushering in of shalom, the invitation for God to come and make things the way He intended them. ‘Let heaven come’ is giving permission for His divine order to be established on earth and infused in every part of our lives. Colossians 1:20 in The Message captures it, “All the broken, dislocated pieces of the universe – people and things, atoms and animals- get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of His death, His blood that poured out on the cross.”
When I sing, “Let heaven come”, I’m releasing a firsthand experience with what Jesus died to give us – all things made new, redeemed, restored, and calibrated to His hope. When we sing it we release the properties of heaven – peace, love, joy and righteousness, here on earth; shalom – as it was meant to be. It looks like our hearts restored, families made whole, every corner space and subject of our lives saturated in His resurrection.
Heaven coming to earth looks like knowing the strength of belonging in the family of God. It’s when everything that was once fractured by the fall is brought back together and made new, seamless and spotless. It’s the stuff of ‘beauty for ashes’ and ‘joy for mourning’.
When heaven comes we are free and available to love Him fully, serve Him lavishly and worship Him recklessly.
Since all of life is worship, let’s worship well by living well with lives unobstructed and everything fit in its rightful place under King Jesus’s reign in our lives. As we’re steeped in shalom, may we reflect Heaven’s values and see them manifest in our world. His presence empowers us to walk out our lives like the victorious and free children that we are. Let’s give space for His priorities, His power, His resurrection to happen here on earth and in every part of our being, so that all is as it should be through Jesus.