Several years ago I started studying the kingdom of God "again" to teach to a class and a theory came to my mind that I have been working on and proving true ever since.
The first time I studied the kingdom I was discouraged at the vagueness of the subject and its diversity in Jesus's hints/ parables. I drifted into a study about the absolute truth about God and his will. The second time I ended up putting these two thoughts together and realized an interesting fit.
What if the kingdom of God is the realm of the absolute truth of God's will. This truth was revealed to us by Jesus. His parables and likeness analogies shows us the different characteristics of this truth. The meaning in each analogy reveals a part of the kingdom of truth that God desires us to be aware of, in order for His peace to grow in our lives.
I will give you my meanings of each kingdom analogy in another Post, but I am only saying these are my theories and in no way to be used to build another denomination or replace any truth found in the bible.
I'm a engineer at heart and I like to get to the simplest elements in every subject I think about. So to be consistent in my engineer comfort zone I have put a theoretical structure to the kingdom of God.I believe there are 2 kingdoms of God, the one of faith and the one of no faith; or the one seen with our eyes and the one seen with our spirit.
The one of no faith will not require faith to see it because it is the kingdom to come. When Jesus comes again and establishes heaven on earth or whatever will happen, everyone will see it, believers and unbelievers. I really do not have a good theory on this one, but I cannot wait to find out because it will be truly wonderful, whatever it will be. People have great thoughts on it, but I think even the greatest and closest to the truth thoughts will fall so short that nobody will be able to say " I knew it would be like this! ''
The kingdom of God that requires faith is only seen by the Holy Spirit that lives within God's children. this is the one that can establish peace in all circumstances. This is the one that Jesus came to reveal in order for us to walk in God's will. I believe if a person can walk with the eyes of the Holy Spirit then the person will see the absolute truth in any situation. I'm going to explain what I mean in another Post, but now I'm going to give structure to the kingdom of God seen only by faith in order to help someone seeking it, find it.
I believe God is very much involved in the lives of His children. I constantly think about 3 characteristics of God that shows in everything He has done or will do. His love, Wisdom, and Power is in all of his acts. So if you stop and think about these characteristics to the fullest degree of your understanding, then you have taken your mind off of your situation and put God's Love, Wisdom, and Power in the center of your focus. In doing so you have now entered into a form of worship that acknowledges who God is. Then what happens next is the miracle of peace in your situation.
Once you have God fresh on your mind and apply who He is to your situation, then you have to accept the fact that you are really safe and secure and everything will be O.K. in due time, because God is in charge. If you think about how He loves you more than you love yourself or more than anyone else loves you and willing to put Jesus through hell in order to have a relationship with you. Then think about His Wisdom to make the absolute best decision when it comes to your future, and think about His absolute power to implement that wisdom in your life. Then! apply those 3 thoughts to your situation, no mater how hard, peace will be available for you to accept to enter into your mind because you are in the hands of the God that absolutely loves you move their anything and only wants the best for you.
A good analogy is a mom taken her child to the doctor and the doctor needs to give the child a shot in order to save the Child's life. The Mom's love, wisdom, and power is far greater than the child's understanding and the child only see's the immediate pain and cannot comprehend how this is better than not getting a shot.
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