"Your supreme and good and just rule"

O God, far above and beyond our grasp,
  yet close to us like a parent:
Let the time come soon
  when you are recognized by all as God.
That is, when you establish
  your supreme and good and just rule
  over your whole creation.
Yes, let the time come soon
  when your gracious plan for salvation
  becomes a reality on earth
  as it now is in heaven.
While we wait for that day,
  let us already now enjoy
  the foretaste of the messianic banquet
  as we share in the bread that sustains our bodies.
In order to make us worthy of that community,
  forgive us what we have done wrong
    to our brothers and sisters
  as we have already forgiven those who did wrong to us;
  for we know that we are and must be
  the mutually forgiven community,
  your community of these end times.
And see to it that we are not tested beyond our strength,
  for we know that Satan can destroy us--
  unless you rescue us out of his ferocious grip.

    by Krister Stendahl, in The Kingdom On Its Way