The gospel of the kingdom says pack your bags, kiss your family goodbye, say goodbye to your city and your life there. Yes, everything you have laboured for years to build, say goodbye to your country, to your tribe and nation. Pack your bags but don't pack much, limp out of your whole world and begin the journey to a city built by the hands of God Himself.
"The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you... So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed," (Gen 12:1,4).
"to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all" (Rom 4:16).
The gospel of the kingdom is for those with the faith of Abraham. It is for those who would leave everything behind to pursue after God and His eternal purpose. Yes, it involves leaving everything... I mean everything behind. Let us hear it from Jesus's lips;
"“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost,... whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple." (Luke 14:26-28,30).
Say goodbye to everything, I am sorry there is no other way. You cannot have Christ and have your life. You must count the cost, be ready for anything, you might even die on way to the city. It doesn't matter what happens to you, so you better carry your cross, carry the burden of death. You cannot be thinking of what to eat or how you will survive, you have sold your life to death, you have rested from the struggle of survival. You are not interested in surviving, yes carry the burden of death, that is the only way.
Leave now, leave your city, leave your life behind and begin on the journey. How you will survive doesn't matter, just answer the call — that is the faith of Abraham. If you do not have this faith I am sorry the gospel is not for you. You cannot have it both ways; you cannot have your life and have Christ. Yes, you've struggled so much to build that life for yourself but you must pack and leave now. There is another kingdom waiting for you, a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God. Do you think you have what it takes, have you counted the cost, and can you pay the price?
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