ok so its 4am (Korea time) and im wide awake thanks to jet lag, jet lag is an amazing thing, gets us early risers going even earlier!! been reading and thinking about the kingdom of God... Willard (The Divine Conspiracy) puts it this way
"Now God's own 'kingdom,' or 'rule,' is the range of his effective will, where what he wants done is done. The person of God himself and the action of his will are the organizing principles of his kingdom, but everything that obeys those principles, whether by nature ar by choice, is within his kingdom." (p.25)
This is a great starting definition... I must think about this in the greater context of life and kingdom travelin... I would love to find fellow travellers to converse about this...
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Wow. That's a great definition Tom. I think about how God's kingly rule is being done among us at every moment. His kingdom is near, it has already come. But then there's the half-baked ways I do his will, and I see that his kingdom is still a long way off. To live in His kingdom, within His kingly rule, is to be rich. I guess finding myself in His kingdom is like finding a million dollars in a field and gladly relinquishing everything I own to buy that field.
Yes it has already come, it is with us now, and as I think about this in light of Christmas, isn't that part of the significance of God is with us - Emanuel???
and if He, the King, lives within us, and we are hidden with Him, then we are walking vessels of the Kingdom authority and all that kingdom entails. WHOA! And this thought after jet lag!
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