LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD MARCH 28, 2024

 LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD MARCH 28, 2024

Greetings Dear Saints who are living in the Kingdom of God,

We are living in His Kingdom, hopefully to the best of our ability in the wild world we also live in.

As we all know, we were created and serve a very loving, patient, merciful and forgiving Heavenly Father. A gracious God who has had a plan for each of us even before the first humans received the breath of life. It is because of that knowledge we have of God that we have faith and hope and His assurance that He will always honor His promises.

Because God gave us agency, to choose Him as our Father, and we choose many times not to follow His commandments. Knowing mankind would turn away from Him, God arranged for His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ to come to the earth to pay a debt He didn’t owe, because we had a debt we couldn’t pay. The ultimate gift and sacrifice-the Creator giving His life for His creation. If you don’t think God suffered for you, read Doctrine and Covenants 18; Mosiah 1:97-106; and Luke 22:42-44 as well as the accounts of how Jesus suffered for every one of His creation in each of the four gospels.

When Jesus began His ministry, as recorded in Matthew 4, He went about preaching the gospel of the Kingdom. After he was resurrected and appeared to his followers, just prior to his ascension into Heaven, he spoke of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God, Acts 1:3. God’s plan for His Kingdom is top priority for Him and must also be for us.

We must strive with all our being, trusting completely in God to seek first to build up His Kingdom and establish His righteousness. If “our plan,” doesn’t line up with God’s plan He has made it very clear that we will not share with him in His Kingdom. Our lives are recorded in the Book of Life and God will not accept our human alibis, excuses, could have, should have, but didn’t reasoning.

God has made everything so clear in all His scriptures as to what He expects from each of us

We do not want to be a foolish virgin and have Jesus say, “YOU never knew Me.” We all are aware that the enemies of God have done everything they can to turn mankind away from God. This is very evident in the birth of Jesus Christ and His death as most of the world, even in the Center Place, put much attention on the way the world observes these life saving events. God told us in 1909 in DC 128:8 how we are to interact in the world.

We have all the instructions we need to help bring forth the Kingdom of God on earth, as it is in Heaven. It must be evident in our lives that we are living/doing His will on earth as it is in Heaven. It is His Kingdom, not ours. He has invited us and made the path clear how we can be in His Kingdom. Jesus is among many other descriptions, THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE and no man comes to the Father, but by Him.

May we, individually, take time to be holy, have His Holy Spirit dwell with us, abide in Him always, make sure he is our only delight, stay on the Old, Old Path which is made strangely sweet, by the touch divine of His Blessed feet, and forever proclaim, Oh Lord My God, How Great Thou Art.

God bless,

Paul Gage