The great lie of our time is that the kingdom of God is not at hand and that it isn't ever coming- that inequality, sadness, destruction, and death are inevitable.
That we must either despair or escape in the relief of busy and separate lives, succumb to fear or to apathy.
But I've seen it with my own eyes, touched it with my hands.
Everything Jesus ever said is true, not just the parts I want to believe.
His kingdom is here.
Christ is everywhere, in everything small, every blade of grass, every kindness you ever received.
He is the only song you've ever heard that makes sense.
He sees blessing where everyone else sees only a curse.
He is love- that's all He ever was and all He ever will be.
His heart is aflame, and He will wound you and heal you at the same time.
The world is so much worse than we would like to believe and God is so much wilder than we are being taught.
We can study the kingdom of God but we can never contain or subdue it.
Reading about it will never equal the experience of it.
That we must discover for ourselves...
and we will find it where God always said it would be:
on the margins,
in the upside-down kingdom.
"Assimilate or Go Home" by D.L. Mayfield
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