Reorienting to God’s Kingdom

 1 Kings 2; 1 Chronicles 29; Psalms 95; 2 Thessalonians 1 

“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.”

1 Chronicles 29:11

“Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;…For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’ So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

Psalm 95:6, 10, 11

Learning God’s ways and entering his rest begins with fully surrendering who we are and all we have to God. In the life of full surrender is worship as we realize that everything we have – life, breath, health, family, wealth, gifts, influence – everything comes from God. Any other response than grateful worship of God is idolatry. With full surrender and grateful worship comes rest as we eat of the produce of the ‘promised land’ and enter the harvest of righteousness and peace.

Have we entered into the Lord’s harvest, or are we still striving to bring in our own?

The Lord’s Prayer summarizes all these themes and reorients our life around the Lord and his kingdom. David discovered the freedom and blessing of living that way.

Have we?

“Lord God, all of heaven and earth is yours and all I have comes from you, for your glory.”