During Lent devotionals (using the daily devotionals in "Feasting on the Word") I was ask to meditate on the phrase "kingdom of God" (kin-dom of God) in terms of lived experience because often it's more of an abstract phrase with which we don't remember our lived experiences of it in terms of how it tastes, feels, looks, sounds, incarnated, etc. This image reminds me of the words we share as part of our Great Thanksgiving, "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again." and it reminds me salvation as that which has already happened, is in the process of happening, and that will happen very soon. We experience the presence of God and so kin-dom of heaven is a relational/interconnectedness/communal experiences with God and all of creation as part of salvation. One can taste, see, feel, know,smell, hear...experience the kin-dom of God in concrete/incarnational ways and that is good news on this journey.
Shared by Rev. Wongee Joh
Holmes United Methodist Church &
First United Methodist Church Brewster
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