Luke 17:20-21 One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God come?” Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs. You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already WITHIN YOU.”
The Pharisees asked when God's Kingdom would come, not knowing that it had already arrived. The Kingdom of God is not like an earthly kingdom with geographical boundaries. Instead, it begins with the work of the HOLY SPIRIT IN PEOPLE'S LIVES and IN RELATIONSHIPS. We must resist looking to institutions or programs for evidence of the progress of God's Kingdom. Instead, we should look for WHAT GOD IS DOING IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS. - from The Life Application Study Bible, emphasis mine :)
So, BELIEVE! because it's written in black and white in your Bible! YOU carry Heaven within you every where you go. You are the gate between the broken world and Heaven. And it is your choice whether to open that gate and allow the love of God to pour through you and onto the people around you. This is what it means to die to yourself and live for Christ. It means you choose to be inconvenienced and you choose to obey the Spirit when he asks you to stop and love someone...to love the unlovable...to love angry people...to love people who think and do things differently...to love your enemies....to love people over stuff...to love people over ministry...
As we approach Good Friday and Easter, may we be again, overwhelmed by His love and allow it to flow freely through us.
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