The Kingdom of God

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        Friday, October 11, 2013

“Again Jesus asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to?
 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour
until it worked all through the dough.”
Luke 13:20-21  

What  cool story!   In my mind’s eye I can see it. . .  .  millions, even billions,  of Christ Followers, each in their own way, each feeling insignificant, even powerless, yet each doing something for others, each going out of his or her way to provide comfort, material improvement, spiritual strength, food, friendship to others who are hurting . .  . .this is the yeast of the Kingdom.  It’s how Jesus is righting the world, one believer reaching another who is in need.    

I think the untold story of the world is the story of the power of the world wide Christian Church.  It is the most underreported, undervalued power on planet earth.   The amount of good done by local believers, added into the mix of billions of others works its way through the dough of the world and the righting, restoration, renewal of the world will be accomplished this way . . . .by Jesus, via his Spirit at work within you, to accomplish  collectively what no earthly power could ever accomplish.   These are the “greater works” of which Jesus speaks when he speaks of incredible collective good done through the yeast of believers living out their faith all over the planet.  

Then, one day,  just at the right time, Jesus will return bringing Heaven with Him and Heaven and earth will be “married” so that a new Heaven on Earth world will be established and Jesus will reign  in this New kind of Society  in which in which every small bit of justice for which God used you will be find itself in this new world.  

The power of the Church of Jesus Christ is unprecedented and if you are part of that power, don’t allow yourself to be proud, rather feel grateful and graced and privileged to have the opportunity to have been partnered with Jesus.  

“Lord may my joy on earth be only to be used by you, day by day, in all the small but significant ways that matter, by which you are redeeming the world and all that dwell in it.    Thank you, thank you, thank you for the joy of serving you which lasts from everlasting to everlasting.  Amen”

 

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