Saturday, August 25, 2012

PATIENTLY

What can happen for those of us who are followers of Christ is that as soon as we become followers we can begin to feel like God should be done with His work.

'All right, God.  You saved me.  Thank you.  Let's finish it up now.  Let's board the plane and get on out of here and start the festivities of heaven.  Let's go.'

'Aren't you glad ... Jesus didn't stop His work the day before you came to faith?'

Aren't you glad, though, that Jesus didn't stop His work the day before you came to faith?  Ok then, be patient as He's working on others.  God has a plan.  He knows what He's doing.  He isn't slow; He's patient - and His Kingdom comes patiently.

And Jesus says, 'Before we get to that Kingdom, we have to go thru the cross.  Before we can have the resurrection and all the really cool stuff, I need to pay for your sin.  There is no Kingdom without a cross.'

We can't just have a better world - we need to deal with sin.  Jesus did go to the cross, He did suffer, He did die, He did atone for the sins of the world, He did rise from death, He ascended back to heaven, He is seated on a throne there, and He will return.  We don't know exactly when, but we know He will.

The Kingdom of God comes patiently.

And be blessed.

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