Thursday, March 7, 2013

What? You Can Not Observe It??

Devotional Reading:
Luke 17:20
The Coming of the Kingdom ] Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed,
Luke 17:19-21 (in Context) 

Devotional Question:
Wait 1 Second... Someone Can See It, Right? What Do You Mean "Not Observed"? Who Can See? 

Devotional Reading:
John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:2-4 (in Context) 

Devotional Question:
How Can I Be Born Again? 
Perhaps I Too Would Like To See/Enter This Kingdom?

Did You Know?
I had absolutely no "say" in my own birth! Likewise, adopted children do not first choose their parents... the parents choose them! Only after this step do the children receive an opportunity to come to love their parents... because their parents first chose to love them. John reminds us we are born of God's will... he calls and chooses us!

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 5:3-5 (in Context)

We all begin... in the kingdom of the world... separated from Him by our sin.