May 4, 2010

Whose Kingdom?

We've been looking at the Lord's prayer in my youth ministry and tonight we talked about "your kingdom come." It's a wonderful thing to say that we want the kingdom to come, but it gets more complicated if we really stop and examine our own lives. There's the dynamic of the kingdom both being already present yet still to come. With that in mind, which kingdom our we living a part of today? If a group of impartial outsiders were to examine us, would they come to the conclusion that we were living for God's kingdom, or would the evidence of our lives testify of another kingdom that has reign and authority over us? Sadly we see examples of other believers that allowed another kingdom to rule in their lives. While they may have said they wanted God's kingdom, their life spoke otherwise. When I pray for the kingdom to come, I am definitely looking torward eternity, but I also want to live completely and unashamedly as a part of that kingdom now.

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