The Kingdom is Here

Devotional

A Now and Future Kingdom
The One Year Worship the King
Chris Tiegreen

Read: Isaiah 65:17
God has promised a new Kingdom. It will be dramatically different than the kingdom we've grown up with. In fact, He has already begun it. Jesus gave glimpses of it whenever He has taught, healed and forgave. He gave us glimpses of it even now, whenever he answers or prayers and grants us the pleasure of His presence. The new heavens and the new earth are a future promise with a present taste. Still, we often live a lot like the captive citizens of this fallen planet.

Are we?Of course not. We know God's promises and we depend on the. We've seen His mercy and known His love. The King is coming, and what He does when He comes will be amazing.

The problem for many of us is living the future glory in this present world.Basing our lives on one-day promises doesn't seem very realistic today. But doing so is one of the clearest ways we can honor God. We can go ahead and live His Kingdom's ethics, count on His Kingdom's plans, fit in His Kingdom's culture and learn His Kingdom's language. Most of all, we can rejoice, worshiping as if we were living in Revelation 22 even when we're still only lingering after the end of Acts.

Worshiping that way is our witness that He is who He says He is, and that He will do what He says He will do, and that it will all be good. When we joyfully live as citizens of the coming Kingdom, conforming to all of it's character and falling in line with all its plans, we are a visible sign to the world that:
1. it fallen and there is a more glorious purpose for it
2. God is real, and His Kingdom is coming

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