The Kingdom of God
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In the Kingdom of God Self is subject to Service. Need generates corrective response There is mutuality of Love and of Care; with sharing of Respect and of Resources. The whisper of God's voice is clearly heard in the absense of self-centred desire. In the Kingdom of God The faults of our fathers are repaired. There is no pursuit of wealth or power. Self-promotion and position are turned to a new humility. In the Kingdom of God There is peace, for all have what they need. There is peace, for striving is at an end. There is peace, for all are equal and loved. In the Kingdom of God There is distributive justice equality of resources, of opportunity and of love. The coming of the Kingdom of God Is not paved in power or prayer in charismatic fervent praise or healing hands but by humble service based on love of others respect for another's views care for creation and community The coming of the Kingdom of God is not signalled with blazing trumpets but grows within us and society like a seed or flavour of hope infecting all with new life born again gently over millennia working out the Purposes of God in God's timetable, not in our own. |
Bible References to The Kingdom Mark 1:15 Mark 4:30-32 Mark 10:15 Matthew 3:2 Matthew 4:17-23 Matthew 5:3-10,19-20 Matthew 6:33 Matthew 7:21 Matthew 9:35 Matthew 10:7 Matthew 12:28 Matthew 13:1-44 Matthew 16:19 Matthew 18:1-5 Matthew 19:14,24 Matthew 21:31-43 Luke 4:43 Luke 8:1,10 Luke 9:2 Luke 10:9 Luke 17:20-21 John 3:3-5 John 19:11 on Acts 19:8 Acts 28:23 Romans 14:17 1 Corinthians 4:20 Colossians 1:13 |