THE KINGDOM WITHIN Part 2
Inner Awakening rather than heaven speculation
Bible Reflection
Luke 17:20–21
“The kingdom of God cometh not with observation… for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
For generations, we were taught to look upward in expectation for a better life after death.
Heaven was portrayed as a future reward, and the Kingdom as something postponed until after death. Faith became a long race of endurance, and life on earth became something to tolerate until escape arrived.
In that understanding, suffering became spiritualised, responsibility was neglected, and joy was deferred as a reward in heaven.
We waited for heaven while neglecting the present, and we waited for God while ignoring what He had already deposited within us. (We became heavenly conscious and earthly useless)
Yet Jesus quietly dismantled this posture. He said the Kingdom does not arrive with spectacle. It is not announced by signs in the sky. It is already present, already active, already within reach, because it is within you.
This truth shifts faith from waiting to awakening. The Kingdom is not a prize at the end of life. It is a reality meant to govern life now.
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