Month: June 2025

The kingdom of God can feel elusive, hard to understand and even so massive we cannot grasp the practical realities of what it brings to earth. But the kingdom of God is for children, for Jesus said, “Unless you become like a little child you cannot enter the kingdom.” This is a statement that speaks of kingdom characteristics we need to be looking for as the kingdom is manifesting on earth.

Children are trusting. They trust people, they trust each other. Children are soft, they are easily hurt, they get over things quickly. Children don’t know or care what day or time it is, they live in the moment. Children are simple. Children are learners. In the first year of a child’s life they learn more than we even recognize or realize. The kingdom of God is for children, that is why we must become like children.

One of the features of the kingdom of God is going to be safety. People are going to feel safe. Fear has paralyzed us as humanity more than we even comprehend. Religion promotes fear, the news promotes fear, marketing uses fear, fear is a powerful weapon, for it is used to control us not liberate us.

I had a first yesterday, when I was helping a friend move. We were given an address to bring the U-Haul to, so I arrived first and then a car of teenagers followed. Our goal was to unload the truck into the new house, so I go up to the door, knock, knock, knock and knock some more. I was told they knew we were coming. But no answer, then all of sudden I hear from inside the house a woman say, “Go away!” I called the name of the person we were meeting, but the woman said again, “Go away!”

I was clueless what the problem was, because I was coming to bring something, but was being refused entry. I knocked some more and then the woman pulls back the curtain on the door and waves a gun at me. Not just any gun, a 9mm handgun. She was making it clear you better back away. I tell the boys who are here to help me unload the truck to get back in the car and I back away (quickly).

There is so much more to say about this story, but in this context, I want to say, I was there to bring something to the house and she thought I was coming to take something from her, so in fear she showed a sign of force to get me to back off. I was at the wrong address, honest mistake, but fear caused her to think I was coming to do something to harm her, not that I was just at the wrong address.

The kingdom of God is coming with safety. Safety is going to break off the spirit of fear people are living with. Psalm 125 says, “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.” We are surrounded by the Lord, and His kingdom on earth is going to cast out all fear in humanity.

The Lord has called us as humanity into a time of relearning. The church wants revival, the government wants reform, but the Lord is calling for a relearning. Pride is the inability to be teachable and pride is the end of our learning. Humility keeps us teachable, flexible and relatable, for we are always learning something new about God and His kingdom.

When a narrative is echoed over and over again it gets established. The narrative can become so entrenched in us that it actually becomes culture. Once a narrative is culture it is baked into our foundation and we believe it is truth that cannot be uprooted. The Pharisees were so baked in the Law of Moses, that Judaism became cultural, so when Jesus showed up, they rejected Him and His narrative of the kingdom of God.

A narrative that has become cultural for much of the church in the West and probably worldwide is the idea of a dark future, a gloom and doom end, a rapture theology. The challenge is, it is baked into so many people if you say anything different, they won’t, can’t or don’t want to hear it. But this narrative is one, not biblical and two, not beneficial to anyone.

Proverbs 2:20-22 says, “You will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.”

We must relearn many things we have been taught in church, for the kingdom of God is at hand. The kingdom of God has entered a building stage in our generation and it will be built according to the biblical pattern, not the seminary one, not the left behind series one, not the cultural/denominational church one. The kingdom of God is a city whose builder and maker is God. God has the blueprints and He is starting to build again.