Competing Utopias

Wow. It's been a whole week since my last post. Some of that time was spent out of town with no internet, but the rest of the time I was just swamped with the holidays. I want to thank everyone who stayed on assignment with Operation Rolling Thunder. Yesterday, it was Servants of Christ covering us with 24 hour prayer. Today, it's Harvest Bible College.

We are seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. We are praying against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places. We are praying for God to intervene in the affairs of human beings to the end that He changes them into His likeness. This is at odds with the world's Tower of Babel. Today, many people are looking to the power of government to change their world and fix their problems. If government just had enough power, we could fix everything!

Today I was reading Acts chapter 7, in which Stephen is giving the people who would soon stone him the Cliff's Notes version of the history of the Jewish people. God had promised them a land from Abram's time, and yet they found themselves in bondage to the Egyptians for 400 years. Nonetheless, God was with them the whole time! They did not yet possess what was promised, but they belonged to Him who promised.

This is why we must pray with patience and never give up. God is with us while we are on the way to our goals. He pursues them with us. We are not alone. And just because it seems that we are surrounded, outnumbered, and oppressed by those who have all the power to make our world as they want it, they do not. Our Kingdom already exists and our King is able to deliver us now, even in the midst of a world system that overwhelms us. But we must cooperate with our deliverer and not compromise with our oppressors.

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