I posted this back in 2013…….The post from back then has been getting many reads today! The calling that God has placed on us here at FGGAM is to make the Kingdom of God visible to all through the work God has assigned us. My prayer is that all will see the Kingdom of God……that all will be in AWE of GOD! I have to tell you that when you are constantly in AWE of GOD you will ‘float through life’….what do I mean?
To me ‘floating through life’ means……you feel GOD, yes I do..it is so very precious… with every step I take, every breath I take.
Here is what I posted in 2013…….
As Ed Stetzer wrote, “it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn’t have to suffer.” Instead, our “sorrow and indignation” should prompt us to act in ways that “subvert” that brokenness.
Our task is to “work to make this world more as God would intend it to be—with justice, peace, and more.” Or as Chuck Colson used to put it,” our task is to make the invisible Kingdom visible.
Chuck loved to tell the story of how, when the great plagues struck ancient Rome and the doctors fled the city, Christians stayed behind and cared for the sick, even though as a result some contracted the plague themselves and died. They saw this as part of what it meant to be God’s people in a suffering world. As a result of their witness, many pagans became Christians because they saw in this sacrificial love something that paganism could not offer.
That “something” was the invisible Kingdom now made visible.
Think of Mother Theresa. While other people abandoned the sick and dying of Calcutta, she embraced them. In doing so, she and her Missionaries of Charity made the invisible Kingdom visible one dying person at a time.
Every time Prison Fellowship volunteers reach out to a different kind of pariah—prisoners—they announce that this world’s brokenness is not final. God is at work setting things right.
One day, because of the resurrection of Jesus, it will all be set right. But for now, we keep running toward the chaos making visible to the world the invisible Kingdom of God that will one day fill the whole earth.
