Saturday, August 11, 2012

Grace to Me Part #4: The Simplicity of God's Upside Down Kingdom

The Grace message is that Jesus loves us and serves us. Not that we love and serve God. ---That is still difficult for me to admit, but what humbling, powerful, empowering truth! Woo!

The Grace message is simple. I love it that Albert Einstein said something like, “If you can't explain it to your grandmother, then you don't really understand it.” In my experience, those who complicate the “gospel” are only mudding the water so that you can't see clearly for yourself making you think you need the speaker to be your guide. News Flash! The only guide lives in the born again and leads you where you need to go. The more awake you get to his love for you, the clearer you also see.

In grace there is no hierarchy. People who see through the eyes of grace see that God's kingdom is flipped upside down. We are equal to Jesus and each other. We have all been given the same power in us that Jesus had which raised Him from the dead. We lack nothing. No man has a special anointing over someone else. Jesus is our covering. We need no man telling us what to think because we have the Spirit who is our teacher. This eliminates any illusion of “responsibility” (control) over people and frees us now to enjoy each other in true relationship. In God's upside-down, awesomely, cool kingdom, the least is the greatest, the servant is the king, the children are the wise, the ones who say they can see are the ones who are blind....do you have ears to hear that? It's my favorite to explore the infrastructure of His upside kingdom!

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