Passion Week Devo - Where was the kingdom? [Thursday]
Jesus spent a lot of time talking about the kingdom. The kingdom he was talking about was not one to rival the Roman government. It was bigger than that.
In John 18:36, “Jesus answered, ‘My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.’”
Jesus told stories about the kingdom and compared it to many things like seed planted by a farmer, yeast, a hidden pearl, a fishing net, a wedding feast, and more.
The people of his time were looking for an external kingdom, but he was offering an internal perspective shift - an alternative way of approaching the times.
Maybe we need that too.
Maybe the devotional question for today should be, “Where IS the kingdom”?
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