WHY KINGDOM IS SO IMPORTANT

1/29/2019

TRY TO IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE OBSERVING GOD FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. HE HAS BEGUN THE MIRACLE OF CREATION. HE IS BEGINNING THE STEPS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BRING US TO THE TIME AND PLACE WHERE MANKIND FINDS OUR BEGINNING…..OUR GENESIS !

GENISIS 1 IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. THE EARTH WAS FORMLESS AND EMPTY. DARKNESS COVERED THE SURFACE OF THE WATERS. THEN GOD SAID “LET THERE BE LIGHT”, AND THERE WAS LIGHT. AND GOD SEPARATED LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS. EVENING AND MORNING, CALLING THEM “DAY” AND “NIGHT”. THEN GOD SAID, “LET THERE BE AN EXPANSE FROM THE WATER, SEPARATING WATER FROM WATER. GOD CALLED THE EXPANSE “SKY”. THEN GOD SAID, “LET THE WATER UNDER THE SKY GATHER INTO ONE PLACE AND LET THE DRY LAND APPEAR”. AND IT WAS SO. GOD CALLED THE DRY LAND “EARTH”, AND THE WATER “SEAS”. AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.

THE STORY CONTINUES WITH VEGETATION, SEED-BEARING PLANTS AND FRUITS, CREATURES SWARMING IN THE WATERS, WINGED CREATURES FLYING ABOVE THE EARTH, LIVING CREATURES, EACH UNIQUE TO THEIR KIND MOVING ON THE EARTH. THE FRAMING OF TIME, INTO SEASONS, DAYS, AND YEARS. AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.

THEN, GOD SAID, “LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS. THEY WILL RULE THE FISH OF THE SEA, THE BIRDS OF THE SKY, THE LIVESTOCK, THE WHOLE EARTH, AND THE CREATURES THAT CRAWL ON THE EARTH”. SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE; HE CREATED HIM IN THE IMAGE OF GOD; HE CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE. GOD BLESSED THEM, AND GOD SAID TO THEM, “BE FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY, FILL THE EARTH, AND SUBDUE IT…….SO THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING IN THEM WERE COMPLETED…..AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY, HE RESTED, AND HE DECLARED IT HOLY AND BLESSED IT FOR HIS CREATION WAS COMPLETE.

IT IS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE STORY, AND SO POWERFUL AND AMAZING. IT IS THE STORY OF WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE COME FROM. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE IT, AND ACCEPT IT IN ITS’ ENTIRETY. OTHER PEOPLE THINK IT IS A NICE STORY, BUT CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE. OTHERS POINT TO EVOLUTION FOR OUR TRANSCENDENCE INTO THE HUMAN SPECIES. OTHERS THINK THERE WAS THIS BIG BANG AND EVERYTHING JUST “BECAME”……WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE???

FOR ME, I HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT WHO CREATED ME, AND OUR PURPOSE IS CLEAR FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

GOD CREATED THIS INCREDIBLE PLANET, AND EVERYTHING THAT IS ON IT. GOD CREATED US, MAN, IN HIS IMAGE. HE CREATED ALL OF US AS MANKIND, MEN AND WOMEN. WE WERE CREATED TO RULE OVER THE EARTH, AND ALL THAT WAS PUT ON IT, MULTIPLYING, BEARING FRUIT, FILLING IT, AND HAVING DOMINION OVER IT. SOVEREIGN RULE, MAINTAINING ORDER. HIS CREATION, HIS OWNERSHIP, BUT WE WOULD RULE IT.

GOD CREATED A KINGDOM FOR ALL OF US. GOD CREATED US IN HIS IMAGE….I BELIEVE THAT MEANS A VARIETY OF THINGS, BUT MOST OF ALL HE IS A KING, RULING HIS KINGDOM WITH LOVE, ORDER AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE PLANNED ON ADMINISTERING THE EARTH’S GOVERNMENT FROM HEAVEN, THROUGH HIS IMAGE (NATURE) IN MAN AND MANIFEST HIS NATURE AND CHARACTER ON EARTH.

GOD HAD US IN A COMPLETE AND FINISHED PLACE, WITH OUR NATURE AND PRIORITIES WELL SET. THEN WE FELL. FELL TO THE TEMPTATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL….AND WE LOST OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IN TERMS OF THE PURE AND RIGHTEOUS MANNER IN WHICH HE HAD CREATED IT.

IF OUR LIVES ARE TO TRULY HAVE MEANING, THEN ISNT IT CRITICAL FOR US TO RECOVER OUR ORIGINAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, AND HIS INTENT FOR WHO WE ARE? HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS. ROYALTY.

AND THEN, THE GREATEST GIFT WE WILL EVER KNOW. “AND AN ANGEL APPEARED TO MARY, SAYING DON’T BE AFRAID, YOU HAVE FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD. YOU WILL CONCEIVE AND GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND YOU WILL NAME HIM JESUS. HE WILL BE GREAT AND WILL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE MOST HIGH, AND THE LORD GOD WILL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID. HE WILL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER AND HIS KINGDOM WILL HAVE NO END.

JESUS. A GIFT FROM THE FATHER, FULLY GOD AND FULLY MAN. SENT TO DIE ON A CROSS FOR MY AND YOUR SINS. CRUCIFIED, BURIED, SEALED IN A TOMB. AND ON THE THIRD DAY, HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, AND SAVED US. REIGNITED OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER, LEFT US A HOLY SPIRIT AS A GUIDE AND HELPER FOR OUR LIVES. WALKED OUR WORLD AND TOLD US ABOUT THE KINGDOM THAT WE WILL SHARE WITH HIM UNTO ETERNITY.

MY PRAYER IS ONE OF AWE AND THANKFULNESS FOR HIM. FOR MY LIFE, AND FOR ALL THOSE THAT WOULD HEAR HIS VOICE AND FIND LIFE AND JOY IN HIM. BE BLESSED, AND FIND TRUTH. JA