His Kingdom Is Now!
Psalm 145:10-12
Your saints shall bless You. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.
SOMETIMES WE LONG SO FERVENTLY for the coming of the Kingdom at the last great day that we forget that the kingdom of God, in power and glory, is available now to those who worship His Majesty, Jesus Christ. Our Savior ascended the throne as the majestic Son of David when He was raised from the dead (see Acts 2:30). He commissioned His followers to make disciples among the nations by the authority and power of that throne (see Matt. 28:18-20). The apostle Paul said that those who had responded to this invitation had been “conveyed … into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Col. 1:13). God’s kingdom is now! This takes nothing away from the fact that the Kingdom will not be realized in its fullness until Jesus returns in clouds of glory. But it is to impress upon us the glorious fact that we have access now, by faith, to the power of the King if we live and worship as citizens of His kingdom. One of Satan’s most insidious tactics is to make us look with dismay at the smaller battles he wins around us every day, forgetting that our King has already won the greatest battle—that the final revelation of His victory only awaits His chosen moment. Regardless of how bleak the circumstances may seem or how shadowed the horizons may appear by reason of the Adversary’s desperate and despicable tactics, the fact remains that Jesus has bequeathed to us a life of power and of triumph in the resources of His kingdom. Everything God has promised to us already exists. All that remains for us to do is walk with Him until we come to the place where each fulfilled promise is waiting.
