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What if baseball players started playing according to football rules? Or you decided to fly to England and drive based on US rules instead of English rules? There'd be chaos, right? It's hard to use rules that aren't set for certain circumstances.
When we think of God's Kingdom, we have to focus on a different set of rules. In God's Kingdom, things look different, and as long as we try and live in God's Kingdom according to human rules and power relations, it will be a struggle. We grow up accustomed to the idea that the strong must win and that wealth defines worth, and yet Jesus comes along and teaches us something different. Jesus teaches us that we need to start over, that life, true life, goes by a different set of rules. It's hard to wrap our minds and lives around, and yet it's a lifetime's worth of effort, good effort, that brings us slowly into alignment with God's Kingdom.
Thy Kingdom come, we pray, into our hearts and minds and lives.
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