My Kingdom Go

Monday, November 25, 2024

Good morning, Lord

Father in Heaven, I seek You first-Your peace-Your knowledge and discernment. Build my trust. I take up my cross and follow...In Jesus' name...

Verse of the Day: Colossians 3:17

17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Memory verse: Psalm 42:2(New American Bible )

"My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God?"

Today's reading: Ezekiel 27-29 1 Peter 3

My Kingdom Go

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.—Matthew 6:10

Many years ago, a man wrote that when we pray "Thy kingdom come...", we should learn to say to ourselves, "My Kingdom go."

Each of us has our own world in which we operate and most of us have our points of pride, i.e., prestige, leverages, trophies, belongings. We need to spend some time in Ezekiel where God talks against the false and filthy Gods of the Israelites. The references are many and often.

Then we must look at our own 'kingdoms' and how we cling to things for the preservation of pride or power and know that any of it-any thing that takes our energies to preserve 'our kingdom' for selfish reasons comes between us and God.

Our kingdom go...our kingdom must go. We must become less and He must become more. John the baptizer wrote about Jesus:

29"The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30 He must increase; I must decrease. 31 The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.…" John, chapter 3

Let it go. Whatever it is, it cannot be bigger than God's love for you. He is whatever we need. He holds the keys that open whatever doors we imagine. He is the one true God who loves you as much as anyone.

God's peace is a constant. His peace for us is a constant. For me, no matter what the world of the enemy throws at me God's peace is always there. I can be in the middle of turmoil and God reminds me-"I am here". I close my eyes and there above me running from left to right is the river of His peace. I am in His hand and no one or nothing can pull me from His hand.

Now, what part of your kingdom is worth sacrificing God's peace the way He wants you to experience it?

Jesus said, "My peace I give you-not the peace of the world-My peace is nothing like that-I do not give peace like the world gives it-"(paraphrase from John 14:27)

My kingdom...go...be gone...

...because He loves us...

Father in Heaven,

Forgive me for holding on to my great pride. Teach me to let it go. I want the desire to let go of my kingdom and seek yours with my whole heart.

One and only true God,

In the name of Christ Jesus,

Amen