Life and its challenges can become complicated. So it goes without saying that life isn’t easy to live. But taken into consideration, life is supposed to have things that are given to us without having to guess or work. But these days everything, including food is becoming more and more locked behind fences and paywalls. I used to wonder about that but then I understood the truth. Sometimes, we as people have to make different decisions in order to do better toward one another.
“Let us make man in our image and in our likeness. And let them have dominion over the earth”. Genezis 1:26, the creator of all creation, God, the Lord set out to make a people for the earth He created. He created it and gave us rulership over earth under His banner, that is, the kingdom of heaven to which we are redeemed to live when we believe in Jesus Christ (Yeshuah Messiah).
But as we know, sin (rebellion) against God’s commands came from the first man. So, all of us are born in sin and make choices that are different. Those choices have led to a lot of death and destruction, in the name of sovereignty. The irony can’t be missed. Death and destruction followed the formation of nations and borders. That was the tussle started by our ancestors long ago.
Today we have multiplied their doings and locked even food that grows out of the ground behind paywalls. But the decisions we have been making go much deeper than currency wars or borders, because we deal with murders, protective forces that kill without warrant, groups that harm for no reason other than to cause harm.
All the advances in technology and medicine has not reduced death or sicknesses. Instead we march with promises of visions of a better world while making decisions that cause death in every corner of the world. Yet, call for change and then begin to attempt to force each other not complying with someone else’s lifestyle choices and we expect better to come from society.
Life and its challenges can become complicated. But the creator still remains the same even as we have changed from a people to divisions bent on killing each other.
God, who created, also sent an envoy to call us back to His kingdom. The envoy first came as destitute men and women who called from hilltops and our cities, the prophets of old who told of a God who wanted mankind to change and find Him. Then finally He sent His own son, as a man into the world so it could be saved through Him (John 3:16-18).
But what is needed now is a change among the people who believe and are being saved. The people of the world need to hear and see the message in us. The message of the gospel was never about building four walls to occupy, but to be a beacon shining into the world. That means, exemplify the word of God in our living so that others could see and wonder what we’re doing that is different. We ought to be involved in life, but not to the point that we pick sides, instead we do right as we are able.
We ought to live at peace with one another because peace begins in the individual. Agents for change is within each individual and not outside. Outside are our insecurities piled high along with our desires, which cause us to fight for things we want, because it belongs to others.
If we are looking for change we need to look to Jesus Christ, through whom we have been redeemed. All authority has been given to Him. Jesus told us the kingdom of heaven is within us. One thing I’ve noticed about the prophets God sent in the old days, there would be someone complaining about injustice, so God would send them to go and warn the people of His judgment.
The people of the kingdom of heaven can be great agents of change to impact one life at a time on this earth. We know that the world we left behind to follow Jesus is being corrupted by the powers and principalities that rule over those who remain in sin. We are advised by the elders to pray for those in charge. We are to continually pray for the leaders of the world, not that they would fulfill the agendas we agree with only, but that they would administer justice equally to all people.
Believers know the prophecies that will come upon the world, but in this time of testing our prayers can effect change that help everyone life a more peaceable life. If we want change then we must be willing to be bold with our prayers for leadership, for the communities we live in, for the mission of the gospel. On earth, God has given us a great gift of a kingdom within the people who believe and repent.
While seeing the destruction taking place around the globe, we can effect some relief on the people we live around. We also can continue to be the beacon we have been called to be. Not the ones locked behind 4 walls on worship day, but those who inhabit the spaces where we live. We understand that we cannot change the direction of the world because of sin, unless we get everyone alive to repent and turn back to God. But out bold prayers can be the agents of change for justice and equity for all.
The next time you kneel to pray consider your neighborhood or the people you know who are suffering. The leadership where you live or even the churches in your areas. Our prayers and the power of God in the kingdom of heaven can still effect the change we are looking for if we would only be bold and believe.
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