OUT OF THIS WORLD

Matthew 6:9 (KJV)
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.”
“…in heaven…?” What a perspective. He is our heavenly Father. He is not our earthly father and cannot be compared as such, no more than our earthly father can be compared to God. “In heaven” puts God in a place that is not of this world. When we start thinking out of this world is when we will start acting out of this world. Before the world was formed He (heavenly Father) chose to love us; His love is out of this world. He does not love like this world, He does not think like this world, and give reason why Jesus said, “I am not of this world.”
It is not until we become crucified to the world and the world to us that we are available to His world. In fact, the Scripture tells us that the love of the world is enmity with God. Now, this is not talking about the people in this world, it is talking about the kosmos or systematic ways of this world. Getting connected with God will disconnect us from this world.
Jesus prayed that the Father would not take us out of the world, but that He would keep us from the evil of this world. Jesus was in the world, yet not of it; our heavenly Father expects the same of us. We must love differently, think differently, and act differently. Our heavenly Father sent Jesus to the world and is why Jesus said, “Even as the Father has sent me, so send I you.” Just because we are not of this world, we are not to abandon the people in the world. Get out there and love like Daddy, think like Daddy, and live like Daddy. “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.”