The Kingdom

A question we must all face.

“What is the Kingdom of God?” On one hand, the first thought that comes racing through my mind is, “I can’t believe after 2000 years we are still debating things like this!” I know that thought can be rather harsh, but sometimes it’s things like this that I wrestle with. (Just being honest here)

But the reality is our faith in God is a personal thing and every part of truth must sink deeply into our soul to sprout roots. So it is that in every generation, each person needs to ask these kinds of questions like “What is the Kingdom of God?” Because, after that comes the next question, “What is my role in it?”

You can not accurately answer the second without answering the first. For some of us, it takes a lifetime to figure out how to join in the adventure Jesus has before us. But, then, thank God some people are a bit quicker in figuring it out.

I love Jesus’s way of explaining the Kingdom, parables. We who want everything laid out line by line with everything perfect must wrestle in each generation with the God of Heaven and Earth. A God who gives an answer so simple a child can understand it. But we adults must wrestle with it.

So… are we making things more complicated than it needs to be? Or are we finding hidden gold the Lord has buried for us to teach others?

The Kingdom is life-impacting, and transformative. Once it is truly examined, it forces other issues like the Body of Christ, leadership, Charismatic gifting, as well as our responsibilities to the lost, hurt, and Lonely to conform to the realities of the Kingdom. For this to truly happen in our lives, we must be willing to walk away from traditional and denominational preconceived ideas.

Many of these long-held sacred cows only serve to separate the Body of Christ from each other. A separation Christ never intended.