Living or Pancakes?

Luke 17.20-21

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

The reason Jesus answers them this way is because the kingdom of God is something he carries.  Where the king is there is the kingdom.  His reign and rule stretch to all reality.  He is the king of kings.  All authorities are subject to his nail-pierced hands and through the very word of his power atoms consists.  One may ask, ‘Jesus is king, eh?  King of what?’ the answer – pick something!

He is the head and beginning of everything – all things were made by him and for him.  I pray that God would make this real to me, and that I would stop looking at the universe as something made to entertain me, or my possessions as the products of my labor.  Instead, may he break me and humble my heart to look at things and not say, ‘Mine’ but say ‘His’.  Lord Christ, help to me lose the perspective that I am an owner and replace it with the heart of a faithful steward.