Come
Spelled Pronunciation [kuhm] verb, came, come, com⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Come closer!
2. to arrive by movement or in the course of progress: The train from Boston is coming.
3. to approach or arrive in time, in succession, etc.: Christmas comes once a year. I'll come to your question next.
4. to move into view; appear.
5. to extend; reach: The dress comes to her knees.
6. to take place; occur; happen: Success comes to those who strive.
7. to occur at a certain point, position, etc.: Tuesday comes after Monday. Her aria comes in the third act.
8. to be available, produced, offered, etc.: Toothpaste comes in a tube.
9. to occur to the mind: The idea just came to me.
10. to befall: They promised no harm would come to us.
11. to issue; emanate; be derived: Peaches come from trees. Good results do not come from careless work.
12. to arrive or appear as a result: This comes of carelessness.
13. to enter or be brought into a specified state or condition: to come into popular use.
14. to do or manage; fare: She's coming along well with her work.
15. to enter into being or existence; be born: The baby came at dawn.

How many times have we seen the word, “come”? It appears on every invitation. Come to our party! Help us to celebrate! Come to our open house. Come and join us in whatever endeavor. It appears, not only on an invitation but as an invitation, to welcome others, whether to a party or to a lesson or to a service. Come…It’s an open door just waiting for a response. How is the door to my heart? Is it open, open to the Father’s kingdom? Each and every time we recite the Our Father we invite the Father, come, and enter my heart, Lord God of all. Once the door is opened by us, the Father can work miracles through us, for us, by us. He uses each one of us in marvelous ways. Look around you and behold the people of the Lord. They are there in service to one another in a thousand different ways. Some come as doctors, some come as teachers, some as priests, many come as parents. Once we have opened the door to our hearts, our own wills are cast by the wayside. It is now the Father’s will in which we live. His will is the same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, that we love one another as He has loved us.

Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matt 26:34

Kingdom

Kingdom

king⋅dom
Spelled Pronunciation [king-duh m]
–noun
1. a state or government having a king or queen as its head.
2. anything conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of independent action or control: the kingdom of thought.
3. a realm or province of nature, esp. one of the three broad divisions of natural objects: the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.
4. Biology. a taxonomic category of the highest rank, grouping together all forms of life having certain fundamental characteristics in common: in the five-kingdom classification scheme adopted by many biologists, separate kingdoms are assigned to animals (Animalia), plants (Plantae), fungi (Fungi), protozoa and eucaryotic algae (Protista), and bacteria and blue-green algae (Monera).
5. the spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ.
6. the domain over which the spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ extends, whether in heaven or on earth.

All of the definitions above speak of the meanings of the word, ”kingdom”. Only two, number’s 5 and 6 speak of the kingdom that belongs to God. That is, those are the only two that mention God’s name as the sovereign power.
The other definitions talk about kingdoms governed by man or of kingdoms being separations in science or separations in thought.
If we begin to separate the kingdoms of the earth into animal, vegetable, or mineral, we begin to see the complexity of the creation of the earth. We begin to see the incredible ordering of all the elements and how they work together to cause the changing of the seasons and the cycles of life that abound through them. If you look then, at the classifications of the scientific kingdoms and see the levels of life therein, you can see the mighty power of the creator of all those forms of life. Some of them are not even visible to the naked eye. Some are not visible unless a high powered lens is included the study. Some are too sublime to be understood by the unscientific lay person. Regardless of our understanding, though, they remain an important part of the world, part of the kingdom.
There are countless debates going on today about kingdoms. The obvious debates are the countries who remain at war. There are fights about kingdoms, whose is whose, and what is whose. There are debates about the kingdoms of when life is life and when it is deemed valuable. We, as a people, have a bit of that kingdom over which we lord power too. We get to vote in this country and give voice to the overall governing of our little piece of this kingdom of the earth. With that comes responsibility, especially from those of us who pray the “Our Father”. We pray thy kingdom come, not my kingdom come. He, the Father, has already given us a clear cut set of rules. When next we vote, dear Lord, help us to remember thy kingdom.
When again we look at the definitions, we can see that they are all about God’s Kingdom. Because God’s kingdom is everything and everywhere and everyone, seen and unseen. Thy kingdom come!

THY

Spelled Pronunciation [th ahy]
–pronoun
the possessive case of thou (used as an attributive adjective before a noun beginning with a consonant sound): thy table.
thou
Spelled Pronunciation [th ou] ,pronoun, singular, nominative thou; possessive thy or thine; objective thee; plural, nominative you or ye; possessive your or yours; objective you or ye; verb
–pronoun
Thy will be done……It is a very formal way of speaking. It reminds me a little of the Shakespearean poetry. The old English usage from hundreds of years ago seems to equate more respect somehow, so therefore it remains here in the prayer.
Have you heard the prayer spoken aloud with the word “your” in place of the “thy”?

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done….

Somehow it loses a bit of the respectful nature of the prayer. It seems all of a sudden that the Father is a buddy of ours. Not that that in itself is a bad thing. Familiarity breeds comfort. But sometimes comfort breeds self-ish-ness. It is just lacking a little when it comes to the respectful nature that the prayer has otherwise.

Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done.

It starts to sound a bit like a rap song to me too. It could be a song that others would relate to more readily. Perhaps it would.

As for me, I think I’ll keep the “thy”.