Dan Sweitzer
Hebrews 12:28
April 16, 2014
Since we receive a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
We seem to live in a world with no permanence, no consistency, and no predictability. We are subject to the whims of government, to the fluctuation of economics, even to the ailments of our own bodies. We try to prepare ourselves to manage this inconsistency by increasing our knowledge and making contingency plans. However, as a hospital administrator, I know that with the stroke of a pen, a President or a Governor can significantly alter the healthcare system in which we operate and through which we serve our community. No human institution offers us the reliability and harmony we crave.
Through the grace of God, unearned and certainly undeserved, we also live in a world created by Him for us, and through the teaching and example of Christ Jesus, know that His kingdom is available to us, a kingdom that is eternal, constant and joyous; a kingdom where the rules never change, because the Ruler never changes.
So we feel we live in two worlds, one in service of the ordinances and institutions of Man, while we strive simultaneously to live in the world created for us by God’s grace. On Sunday morning and Wednesday evening we find it easier to open ourselves to Christ’s love and teachings, but come Monday morning our jobs, our schools, our secular world make demands that are difficult to ignore. But as this verse teaches us, we are only able to serve God and His plan for our world when we our living our lives in His kingdom, not ours.
Father, help me find the way to Your kingdom, so that through Your grace, I may become worthy to serve You.
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