"Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom ('a kingdom of all ages'), and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations." (Psalm 145:13, KJV)
Thomas Edison was once asked "what inspired his inventions." He replied, "I find out what the world needs...then I proceed to invent it." Jesus Christ has never had to "invent" anything, because He has always been "one step ahead of" mankind--- his troubles, his arrogance, his needs.
Many times when we pray, it is as though we think our life caught God off guard, as though our condition needs some new "invention" to help us. Everything in the Bible, however, declares just the opposite. The Blessed Trinity has a very wide range of "awareness." He not only knows when the sparrow falls, He rules among men and nations. Though it may not seem so to the unregenerate eye, neither our lives nor the world itself is ever out of control. There may have been and still are various currents, backwashes and eddies of human history, but never has the "river" of history been without the "Banks" of God's purposes.
---- And neither have you nor I. As Followers of Jesus Christ, we are citizens of the only kingdom of which it can be declared, "a kingdom of all ages." No Lover of Jesus ever had reason to despair over his future, or about the government that had the rule over him, because over that future and that government has been always the great "Bank" of history, the, "Everlasting Kingdom," of Christ.
It is sadly amusing that the most horrific, genocidal "kingdom" ever to rule on earth, boasted that it would last a thousand years. It lasted twelve. And though the great world kingdoms, from the Babylonian Kingdom to the "kingdom" of the United States of America today, have impressed man with their might and extensive power, the only trace of the one which historians say did last a thousand years, is broken, crumbled ruins.
Look around you today. According to the "God-Breathed" Word, everything you now see is temporary, your body, clothes, your house, your country, even that suffering. Yet we rejoice because, "We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." Hence, today, the choice is really quite simple, isn't it? Despair over the things of the decaying kingdoms which, "are seen," or rejoice over the things which are of the, "everlasting kingdom, which "are unseen."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray for conversion of my choices today. Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Thomas Edison was once asked "what inspired his inventions." He replied, "I find out what the world needs...then I proceed to invent it." Jesus Christ has never had to "invent" anything, because He has always been "one step ahead of" mankind--- his troubles, his arrogance, his needs.
Many times when we pray, it is as though we think our life caught God off guard, as though our condition needs some new "invention" to help us. Everything in the Bible, however, declares just the opposite. The Blessed Trinity has a very wide range of "awareness." He not only knows when the sparrow falls, He rules among men and nations. Though it may not seem so to the unregenerate eye, neither our lives nor the world itself is ever out of control. There may have been and still are various currents, backwashes and eddies of human history, but never has the "river" of history been without the "Banks" of God's purposes.
---- And neither have you nor I. As Followers of Jesus Christ, we are citizens of the only kingdom of which it can be declared, "a kingdom of all ages." No Lover of Jesus ever had reason to despair over his future, or about the government that had the rule over him, because over that future and that government has been always the great "Bank" of history, the, "Everlasting Kingdom," of Christ.
It is sadly amusing that the most horrific, genocidal "kingdom" ever to rule on earth, boasted that it would last a thousand years. It lasted twelve. And though the great world kingdoms, from the Babylonian Kingdom to the "kingdom" of the United States of America today, have impressed man with their might and extensive power, the only trace of the one which historians say did last a thousand years, is broken, crumbled ruins.
Look around you today. According to the "God-Breathed" Word, everything you now see is temporary, your body, clothes, your house, your country, even that suffering. Yet we rejoice because, "We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." Hence, today, the choice is really quite simple, isn't it? Despair over the things of the decaying kingdoms which, "are seen," or rejoice over the things which are of the, "everlasting kingdom, which "are unseen."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray for conversion of my choices today. Amen.
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New Article at: www.apf327.blogspot.com
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
