S(Matthew 21:43) “Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.”
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Amazingly, God sublets the management of His kingdom to people. In this series of parables, Jesus shocks us even more by His attitude toward sinners: He gives roles of responsibility and influence to the most contempt-worthy people who humbly repent and begin harvesting the fruits of God’s Spirit. Other, who are driven by the works of their flesh, are in due time exposed and deposed (Galatians 5:19-24).
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My heart is a tale of two warring kingdoms—I choose to rule my life either as a bitter slave or as a benevolent servant of the most High God. I produce either my works (sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these—Galatians 5:19-21), or His fruits (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control—Galatians 5:22). I surrender one to have the other.
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King Jesus, I long for that day when heaven shouts, “The Kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever” (Revelation 11:15). May my heart—with its roles, relationships and responsibilities—help to hurry that day!
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