September 21, 2005

[Rev. Doc]

God's Kingdom

"Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations."
Psalm 145:13

Nikita Khrushchev once boasted that he would exhibit the last Soviet Christian on television by 1965. Khrushchev has since gone to give account of himself to the Judge of all mankind, and his deadline for the extinction of Christianity in Russia has also passed. Throughout history, so-called big men and little men have strutted across the stages of life defying God to no avail. His kingdom shall remain for all eternity.

Prayer: Ask the Lord to always help you remember that you are first a foremost a citizen of His kingdom.

"I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of brute force; that His rule is over hearts, not over places; that His victories must be inward before they can be outward; that He seeks to control spirits rather than bodies; that no triumph could satisfy Him but a triumph that gains the heart; that in short, where God really reigns, the surrender must be the interior surrender of the convicted free men, and not merely the outward surrender of the conquered slave."
~Hannah Whitall Smith