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Discipleship Focus: Kingdom
- Kingdom: We live in God’s creation, but it is fallen. We do not yet live in the fullness of God’s Kingdom. But we do know that the Kingdom of God is drawing near. We do get to see glimpses of the kingdom each and every time that God works in us and through us as He tries to demonstrate Himself to the world.
These
psalms are a great Old Testament perspective on the idea of kingdom. Of course, these words are written before God’s
plan has been fully revealed in Christ.
Therefore, they are indirectly talking about concepts that we who follow
Christ speak about directly.
For
example, can you hear the longing that the psalmist in Psalm 122 has for
Jerusalem? He desires to be in the Holy
City. He decides to be with the Lord. The psalmist longs for the peace and security
that comes from being in God’s kingdom.
In the same way, we live in God’s spiritual kingdom while longing for
the full revelation of His eternal kingdom.
We can
also turn to Psalm 123. In this psalm
the psalmist is looking to God for mercy.
It has been a difficult stretch of time.
The psalmist feels as though the people have endured their share of
scorn and judgment. So the psalmist
looks to the Lord and a time when the people will know God’s grace. We know that feeling, too. We live in a broken and fallen world while
experiencing God’s grace in the small and subtle moments in life. We also know what it feels like to anticipate
the full revelation of His grace in the kingdom to come.
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