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The Conflict
The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man
Everyday I feel the pressing temptation, the overbearing seduction to settle for the ordinary, to domesticate my soul and anchor my hopes, my identity, my dreams in the here and now, the kingdom of man. What is the ordinary? The ordinary is gaining the entire world, yet forfeiting my soul. Even if I should indeed gain the whole world--the fame, money, power, status, and the glamor and glory of man that accompany treasures and accomplishments of the kingdom of man, I will have remained ordinary, for to forfeit my soul is to lose everything. Indeed, it would be to not have truly lived at all. I was created for the purpose of knowing God, and to be known by Him. Everything else pales in comparison.
I was created to love God--the highest pleasure of eternal measure. I was created to be loved by the infinite, personal God, who is the creator and the embodiment of love. I do not need to gain the whole world. That desire is far from my soul. I desire a King, whose desire is to give me His kingdom. I refuse to settle for anything less.
Love Your Neighbor
"Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law." Romans 13:8
The most important commodity in the Kingdom of heaven is love. The commodity is a sacrificial love, a servant love, a covenant love. The currency of heaven is love.
There is a labor of love that far surpasses the labor of the dollar bill. Imagine a community that stopped and helped those broken on the side of the road not because of what they were going to get out of it, not because of what that person could do for them, but because of compassion and love.
This is what Jesus modeled. This love is what was turning the world right side up in the early Church. It was the Ekklesia, the city whose builder and maker is God. This love is what was crushing the government’s financial tyranny and massive taxation; this love is what was liberating the Jewish people. Jesus, the King of Kings, came to bring an entirely different economy on the earth that was far superior to the economy of Caesar.
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