Monday, October 29, 2001
Monday, October 29, 2001
"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind
on earth
will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
For you see, by teaching us to pray for the Kingdom Christ surely expected us to be
working for
the Kingdom as well.
A little girl is kneeling beside her bed. She says, "Dear God, if You're there and You
hear my
prayer, could You please just touch me?" Just then she feels a touch. She gets so
excited! She
says, "Thank You, God, for touching me!"
Then she looks up, sees her older sister, and gets a little suspicious. "Did you touch
me?"
The sister answers, "Yes, I did."
"What did you do that for?" she asked.
"God told me to," was the reply.
Even as we are asking God to bring His Kingdom to our community, God is showing us
things
that need to be done if this community is to resemble the Kingdom of God. We are His
hands, His
feet, His mouth in our world. He is counting on us just as we are counting on Him until
that day
comes when truly the Kingdoms of the world become the Kingdom of our Christ.
(Matthew 16:19
NRSV)
You and I need a passion for the Kingdom of God in our time. It is unbelievable that
2,000 years
after Christ our world would still have as much hatred, as much violence, as much evil
as it does.
If we had maintained Christ's passion for the Kingdom, it would not.
Dear Jesus, thank you for coming into my heart. May I pave the way for others to
receive you
too. Amen.
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