GOD'S GOVERNMENT

So He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.  Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.  (Luke 11:2 NKJV)

In one of those sublime flights with which the epistles of the Apostle Paul abound, he tells us that the time is coming when the Son shall set up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when He shall abolish all rule, and authority, and power. From this we are at liberty to infer that the Kingdom was originally the Father's; that by man's sin and fall it has been alienated from His control by man’s choice..

The Lord Jesus became incarnate for the purpose of regaining the Kingdom by His agony, blood, and tears. When, therefore, we pray: "Father, Thy Kingdom come," we are asking that the complete victory of Jesus Christ may be hastened; that He may speedily triumph over all obstacles and enemies; that truth may reign in government, art, and science; that trade may be free from chicanery and fraud; that tyranny may be extinguished, corruption exposed; that He may send forth His Angels to gather out of His Kingdom all things that offend, and them that do iniquity, destroying that last enemy, death, and bringing in the heavenly age when all men shall know and love the Father, and become His obedient children.

There are many explanations of the Kingdom of Heaven. It is presently a spiritual kingdom commonly known as the Church.  Perhaps as a rough and ready way of interpreting the phrase, we may say divine kingship. When we grasp that idea, it becomes the dominant note of life. It is the master key which opens every lock. Just to believe, deep down in your soul, that the Father of Jesus, our Father, is King. That the God who is moved by the fall of a little bird from its nest, who is described in the parables of the lost sheep and the lost son, is King of the world and all its forces, and of everything in human life. To know and believe this is to get something which is worth everything else.

Won’t you, here and now, place yourself under the government of the King? Let Him govern your heart that you may love only within the limits which His pure and Holy Spirit can permit. Let Him govern your mind, that no unholy thought be allowed to lodge and establish roots within you. Let Him govern the books you read, the companionships and friendships you form, the methods of your business, the investment of your money, the way in which you spend your leisure, all must be under the government of His Kingdom.  Are you a citizen of that spiritual kingdom?

PRAYER

Hasten, Heavenly Father the coming of Your heavenly Kingdom, and the consummation of Your redeeming work. May the Kingdom of Christ come in us and through as; His voice speaking through our lips; His power working through our touch; and His love beating in our heart. In His name I pray, AMEN.

God's Daily Promise

Promise #124:  
I gently formed you in your mother's womb.

Psalm 139:13 (WEB)
For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.