I heard a person speak at a service on the Kingdom of God,and he defined it as being a party, I have given it a bit of thought to what he said,and I think it was a strange thing to say.There is a couple who attended the service and it didn't help them,they are still grieving the death of a son,to them I can assure you that descibing the Kingdom of God as having a party is very imbalanced.As indeed the prosperity gospel is for it ignors the realtiy of what many Christians experience. I pray every day for many Christians who are suffering greatly,to describe the Kingdom of God as being a party, seems to me as being out of place,and insensitive.Of course our Saviour spoke of being blessed ( Matthew 5 v3-12),and 1Peter 1 v8 speaks of joy unspeakable and full of Glory.The blessedness comes because God's favour that rests upon us, the 'joy unspeaskable and full of Glory ( 1 Peter 1 v 8) comes from the fact that we have Christ, and all the blessings that brings to us . Betsie Ten Boom who died in a Nazi concentration camp ,said this before she died,'There is no pit so deep ,that God's love is not deeper'. I cannot honestly sing the words of a song 'Now I'm happy all the day', but I can say I am truly blest because of God's abiding presence with me,and that nothing can seperate me from His love'.
' For the Kingdom of God is not a matter
of eating and drinking,but of righteousness,
peace and joy in the Holy Spirit'.
Romans 14 v 17.
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