Do you ever feel strange when you know that you are a part of Christ’s body that spans the globe, yet whenever there is something happening at a nearby church that could be significant for the Kingdom you feel far away from it? I have wrestled with this for a while now. On one hand I know that there are many parts of the body, so there is no way we can be totally involved in every local happening, and yet I feel a yearning to be connected to it.

This has been on my heart recently because our old church Nathaniel Mission is having a revival this week and I want to be a part of that celebration, but circumstances and prior comittments have kept me from it. However, I think I have come to terms with this phenomenon by focusing on what Christ called us to in the first place. He did not call us to revivals, and VBS’s, and Bible studies. Rather, he called us to love whole heartedly. When we are doing this we are tapped into the kingdom. When we are loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbor as ourself then we are tapped into the movement of the Kingdom. And that same movement is sweeping through those events we once felt seperate from.

I want to get to that spot where loving Christ and His Kingdom is outworked in loving my neighbors and praying for my enemies. And where that love for neighbors is consummated in, and finds its fulfillment in my love for Christ. For he is the means and the object of our love. Without Him no one can dare love the way He calls us to.

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