Kingdom Mindset

I’ve always wondered why I thought the way I did. Why the smaller issues in life meant nothing in comparison to what really mattered to me – my big issues – attitude, spirit, heart, etc. It’s as though I’ve never given myself the opportunity to deal with “things” that came up in my life, things that maybe needed to be dealt with, but in my mind, these things were solved when a change of heart or attitude was made. Or maybe if I could just know God more then it wouldn’t happen…? Those mindsets seemed so far away and unachieveable; just another expectation I had set on myself that I couldn’t meet. How do you create a change of heart? How do I just CHANGE my attitude or be closer to God (spirit)?? You can’t. God can. Praise God if you want him, and he will change your heart to his. Worship God with all of yourself and your attitude is never something you will worry about. DEEP issues of the heart and spirit that are the true issues of life but where the enemy places obsticles in our way and other small things to “care about” in order to sway us from what really matters. Is God what really matters? Well, that’s up to you. Is he what matters to you? That’s where I have to begin my everday right now. My faith is tested, my world is rocked, and questions about what the heck I’m doing come up everyday…but do I want him? or that? First choice of my day – Him. It’s not always this way, and it’s not always immediate. God does not work immediately all the time…but he DOES work all the time.

God is at work in his people. We are a part of his kingdom and yet, living in America, it’s hard for us to understand kingdom. The bigger issues that kings and queens deal with or try and solve…. their mindset could never be focused purely on circumstance (as I mentioned above), but on future, on what’s good, on the root of change. A kingdom can not be run by the situations that come, it can only be run by the Governor General that is God. If God let his kingdom be run by situation, then the devistation of Christ’s death would have ended it all I’m sure. But he used the hurt for good that by accepting God, we now are citizens of the kingdom of God.

“Don’t ask why a man says what he says, find out what made him say it.”

…it takes a little more time to wait, and that’s just enough time for God to work. We can apply this to whatever situation in our lives, but realize that it’s even bigger than that. It’s about a KINGDOM.

Thank you Rabbi Ralph Messer for showing us so that God can teach us who we are.

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