Nothing is as exciting as the kingdom of God. Nothing. One of the things I like about it is it will not let us rust into place. The nature of the kingdom is fluid; always moving about in surprises of great mystery.
Brains want proof. God won't give it. Creation? Parting of the Red Sea? And the Jordan River? God will not show His hand as to how He did any of these. Brains can't figure it so they conclude it all a hoax.
But God is God because He had the ability to create brains...and then baffle them! Read I Corinthians 1:20-31. Note those called and the "not many called". Brains...can't figure God so they work to dismiss Him.
Jesus spoke in parables in order to clearly be misunderstood unless one proved to be simple-minded. Brains can't measure Him; can't possibly chart Him. God is ridiculous to the syllogistic equationists. He won't fit into either because He is much smarter.
The kingdom isn't difficult.....unless one operates from brain-strategy. This is why elders are not a board of directors. They are believers in the unexplainable. This is why pastors aren't CEOs of the church. They are believers in the far-fetched mysteries of the Invisible and Living God!
Why is the kingdom of God so difficult? It isn't.....unless you are using man's intellect to track the mind of God. And then? Good luck on that one. It will be difficult then.
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Very very good thoughts, Terry. I'm reading a book right now called "Things Unseen: Churches of Christ in (and after) the Modern Age" by C. Leonard Allen (Jason gave it to me) and I have been seeing how trying to reason out the Bible using only intellect doesn't work out. I'm going to work more and more on being simple-minded.
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