There is, therefore, a double nature to the kingdom: one within time, and one beyond time. The first is the awakening of the soul to God’s will through ethical transformation and the unselfish love of mankind. The second is the perfected estate of divine attainment—wherein the will of God is performed not in struggle, but in full divinity, in everlasting joy and spiritual sovereignty.
The kingdom in this world begins with desire. It begins not in doctrinal agreement, but in a yearning of the soul to live rightly, to act with kindness, to see the other as brother, and to do the will of the invisible God without fanfare or pride. This is not passive belief—it is the act of making God real by the manner in which one lives.
The kingdom in heaven, by contrast, is the culmination of that desire—where the unselfish love sown on earth becomes radiant wisdom, and the soul, fused with the divine presence, acts in harmony with the eternal pattern. It is a state of being wherein the divine image becomes the eternal form of the self.
To enter either realm—the earthly or the heavenly—Jesus taught two conditions: faith-sincerity and truth-hunger. One must come not as a theologian, but as a child. Not as one full of opinion, but as one emptied and ready to be filled by light.
Faith-sincerity is not merely belief. It is wholeheartedness. It is the laying down of self-justification, and the taking up of trust. It is the choice to yield—to surrender one’s way to the higher way of the Father, even when one cannot see the outcome.
Faith is receptive. It does not build the kingdom, but opens the door to receive it. Sincerity is the honesty of motive—the inner willingness to be taught, to be changed, to be redirected by divine influence.
Adonai
Michael Of Nebadon
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