His kingdom

We often talk about the Kingdom, its values, its teachings. Although we cannot yet understand many things about the Kingdom, just talking about it, meditating on it, dreaming about it, fills the heart with joy and the soul with rejoicing. If there is a Kingdom obviously it is because there is already a King.

The whole Bible tells us about the Kingdom, because the message of the Kingdom is none other than the salvation and redemption of humanity. Jesus inaugurated a new order in the lifestyle where man acquires a new identity and is no longer rich or poor, neither white nor black, neither maimed nor lame, but an accepted child, loved and redeemed by virtue and the immensity of life. Cross. This fact alone makes us heir to the kingdom that will come on the day appointed by the Father.

The Kingdom is lived from the future to the present, it is the race, the goal, the invisible horizon that lies ahead of us, but just over 2000 years ago its King was called out in the desert by a prophet, baptized in the waters of the Jordan and exalted by his Father from heaven as his beloved Son. Since then the Kingdom began to be established for the salvation of man. The Pharisees, who fantasized about the coming of a splendid kingdom led by a King-Messiah adorned with tinsel and material riches, asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would be established. Christ replied, "Realize that the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21). They only had to recognize the King and thereby begin to repent of their sins, but they did not understand; They ignored it and didn't.

Any similarity with the current reality? If many.

Many people say that we are crazy because we mention the Kingdom and that we have a King. They believe that we want to become important or exclusive. The reality is that the Kingdom is for the humble, the suffering, the homeless, the rejected and excluded from this world. As Jesus himself says in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5), it is for the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, those who hunger and thirst for justice, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers and the who are persecuted for the sake of the gospel. Careful! We can never meet God's expectations and demands on our own by trying to meet these requirements. Above all we need faith!

The Kingdom is entered through faith, it is conquered by faith and is expected by faith. Faith in Jesus Christ has such an impact on the Christian life that it transforms, makes us better, truly converts us. Being a convert or being converted does not mean a change of attitude or coat, a "I am not going to do this or that because I know that the Lord does not like it", but a transformation by the Spirit from the inside out, to be a workmanship. new chiseled by the hand of God, a creature with a renewed identity.

So how do we "get into" that kingdom? Are we already living within it? We must never forget that thieves, murderers, adulterers, liars, the wicked, hypocrites and all kinds of sinners also have space in his Kingdom. Repentance is enough and receiving Christ by faith and being born again "of water and of the Spirit." Jesus told Nicodemus "... unless he is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3.3)

Paul told the Colossians: "Christ has delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son" (Col 1:13). So we can affirm that we are living in the Kingdom of Christ, a spiritual kingdom that is peace, joy and justice in the Holy Spirit (Ro 14.7).

We are children of the King and that makes us salt to stimulate the thirst of the thirsty and light to illuminate this world quenched by evil, injustice and sin and in this way proclaim and exalt the King who is already among us. God bless you!