16- I will meet you at the gate!

Day 16

(Following a 30-day walk through the Lord's Prayer. Days 1-15 trace the thread from the beginning if you're just joining.)

How does Thy Kingdom connect to neuroscience and the place we are standing in right now?

I've been working this out for weeks. Not just the beginning of the Kingdom — which we looked at on Day 14 — but its future. Its certainty.

I've been sitting in Revelation 21. John, caught up in the Spirit, trying to describe something his language could barely hold. A new heaven. A new earth. A city descending like a bride prepared for her husband. Walls built of jasper. Gates of pearl. Foundations layered with sapphire, emerald, topaz, amethyst — stone after stone, as if John kept reaching for one more image because no single one was sufficient.

This is not someday in the vague sense we often use that word. This is fixed. Certain. As real as anything in Genesis 1.

And here's what has stirred something in me recently — I've started telling the people I love that I will meet them there. Specifically. Not just "in heaven" as an abstraction, but at the jasper wall, near one of the twelve gates, in a place I have never seen but already trust completely.

That visualization has done something to how I carry the present.

Paul gives us the framework for this in 2 Corinthians 4:18 — we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

This is not escapism. It is not avoidance of present suffering. It is the opposite. It is what allows a person to stay engaged with real pain without being crushed by it — because the pain is being held inside a much larger and far more permanent story.

Neuroscience actually affirms this pattern. The brain regulates present distress more effectively when it has a secure, anchored sense of future — what researchers call prospective hope. Anxiety often spikes precisely where future security feels uncertain. But a nervous system anchored in a fixed, trusted outcome can tolerate present hardship with far greater stability.

Thy Kingdom come isn't only a surrender of the present. For me, it has become a hope and an anchor for the future — one that changes how I carry today.

I will meet you at the gate. Truly.

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