seek ye first the kingdom of God,
and his righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
Please pray for a small group I’m leading tonight. It’s with college age youth. We’re studying Total Truth – that’s the title of a book and a summary of our quest.
What is Truth? Most people in our culture divide “truth” into two realms. There’s the hard realm of science and facts, and there’s the soft realm of values and opinions. The danger in this is that God, faith, and religion has been segregated to values and opinions. When people say, “you can believe in your god, but others are free to believe in their god too,” what they are really saying is that “faith and religion have no business make truth claims. Only science can do that. Religion is opinion.”
In the midst of praying through how to address our young people, I read a story about the days of King Arthur. According to legend, a knight once lamented, “The merciless heathen roams the land at will; our people are starved, murdered, or enslaved. What are we supposed to do?”
Merlin responded, “We have no kingdom because as yet we have no king. The sword is still in the stone. When the king comes, the kingdom will come.”
Here’s the question: Do we have a world in which people are starved, murdered, or enslaved? Absolutely. Why? It’s because we’ve segregated the King of heaven and earth to realm of values and opinion. People are enslaved by sin. They are starved for purpose. Real hope has been murdered. If we don’t make God our King, we are subjects of the world.
Does that make any sense? Are young people are saturated in our world’s secular culture. Pray for them. We’re saturated in this secular culture too. Pray for a King. And pray for His Kingdom to come, on earth as it is in heaven.
In Christ’s Love,
a knight on a quest to bring
God’s kingdom to earth
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