The Kingdom

Jesus often taught about the Kingdom of God, but He most clearly showed us what it was by His life, what he lived for, and most importantly what He died for. The book of Romans records these words, “The Kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit”. This sounds simple but when we live in a culture that is overwhelmingly about “Food and Drink”, and more and more stuff that we are told we have to have to be happy, have to achieve to be significant, have to be to be of value; security we can buy if we make enough money, then these verses take on a whole new light. Do we struggle for righteousness and the fellowship with God it opens our lives up to, do we understand that peace with God Himself is the only real peace, and that Joy is in belonging to our creator and loving our savior; do we spend our limited time and energy focusing and growing here; for most of us we really don’t….we live frantic frenzied lives pushed around by the demands of life that we often have placed on ourselves. Why don’t we learn? God saves us with Amazing grace! But the lives we live we create for ourselves and the kingdom we live in and for is up to us. Jesus invited, “Come follow me!”.