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Sitting here this morning enjoying a cup of coffee with splenda and a healthy dosage of hazelnut non-dairy creamer, I find myself thinking about the Kingdom of G-d. Though I should be focusing on schoolwork and my case that is due in 2 hours… this must be written down. |
The Kingdom of G-d focuses on more than the “law”, it moves us forward past the idea of: don’t do this (fill in the blank) and you will enter into the Kingdom of G-d, into a more introspective look at our hearts.
If we have anger, normally we would do all in our power not to act on it. When we don’t have an outburst or worst case scenerio, when we don’t murder someone due to our anger we have succeeded and not sinned.
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If we are full of lust, and do not “sleeze” around, we have conqueted it, and not sinned.
The Kingdom of G-d works differently than these two scenerios, it looks for a pure heart. It causes us to focus on the root of these things, not on preventing the outward manifestation of them. To rightly bring the Kingdom of G-d to earth we must deal with our issues of anger, asking our brother and sister to forgive us, being righted and not seeping in our anger toward one another. To rightly bring the Kingdom of G-d to earth we must deal with our issues of lust and greed and seek to purge the uncleanliness from our system.
The goal of all this is not to avoid sinning. The goal is to purify our hearts.
Not sinning (outwardly) is something that can be done by ourselves, the pharisees were able to do this and were ever haughty for it. To purify our hearts and unroot the sin is something we cannot do. It requires the help, strength and wisdom of the Holy Spirit, which (if you truly believe) indwells inside of us for the edification of Christ.
Have we planted too many seeds of sin in our hearts, that the roots have muffled out the voice of G-d. These roots of bondage must be pulled, yanked and uprooted in order to rightly Glorify G-d with our lives, our words, and our thoughts.
Further Reading: Matthew 5:17-26 (The sermon on the Mount)
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Ohhhhh wow….so I got to class 15 min. late because of printer troubles–and cause I was slow this morning…and finally get to class and she’s going over our review…which we already filled out…she is just reading it off….why?! I don’t know. So I’m extremely bored and thought I’d rant and ramble on your page.
She’s talking about wet colloiden photography….she doesn’t pronounce colloid right. She has said “um” about 20 times already. Wee….I suppose I’ll go play on some other blogs for a while.
Tomorrow night, Bring Your Own Meat at 5:30. Daniel will BBQ and we’ll eat outside if the weather’s nice. And Anna’s been dying to play spoons, why I don’t know, but we’ll have a few games of spoons maybe some spades, too! Should be fun!
Make that 6:30…Daniel won’t be home until then.
And make that a B-Q, thank you very much.
very good stuff. I figured, it’s been awhile since I posted, and I just had some encouragement. I really like the line of thinking on this kingdom of G-d. Lots of time, especially when Ken talks, I will have already been turning the face of my mind that way on a specific topic, so ken will say what I have been feeling in my heart, and give backing to the wisdom that God has provided me with. A similar thing took place when I read this posting, so that is, for lack of better words, very encouraging. That is all.