Nigeria, Oct. 4 -- As a new believer, I was preoccupied with going to heaven. It took me some time to recognise that God's concerns are not those of men. Men want to go to heaven. God wants to come to earth.

The gospel of the kingdom of God is about God coming down to earth. That is one of the things that differentiates our faith from all other faiths. Jesus, the creator of the heavens and the earth, came down from heaven to earth. He then told us to pray that God's kingdom would come on earth, and that God's will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus Himself is coming back to establish God's kingdom on earth.

John says:

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also, there...