Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
(James 2.5 NRSV)
Walter Marshall Horton wrote of a man who had been a delegate to the International Missionary Council at Madras in 1938. The meeting made a deep impression on the delegate. When he returned home, he tried to persuade his friends to buy small globes. He wanted his friends to hold these globes in their hands once each day, as they slowly and reverently prayed, "Thy will be done on earth." What a shock it must have been to Mr. Horton when World War II began shortly thereafter. It is not easy to build the kingdom of God using the bricks of this world.

In talking about life under the sea, an oceanographer once commented that it was one thing to glimpse a new world and quite another to establish permanent outposts in it and work and live in it. So it is with Christ's kingdom. We may see it in our minds and hearts, but building it is another thing. That is why only God can accomplish it. But it will happen. His kingdom will come "on earth even as it is in heaven," even if He has to use the rubble of humanity's kingdoms on which to build it.

God of love, build your kingdom in my heart. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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