Radical Balance
The gospel of the kingdom is a marvelous and yet curious thing. That would make it wonderful, meaning “full of wonder.”
It is marvelous and wonderful because it tells us that God loves us! It tells us that God gave His Son to die for us. It tells us that we can have eternal life and that we can become God’s children. It tells us that all of creation is going to be redeemed and a New Heaven and Earth will be instituted. And more...
It is curious and wonderful because when we are weak we are strong. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. The humble shall inherit the earth. When we give we end up with more than when we hoard. It is better to give than receive. And more...
Perhaps no other statement so fills this description of being curiously wonderful than Jesus’ words, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.” Apparently, we can’t keep anything by holding on to it; not even our life. Actually, especially our life.
It is when we completely let go and start to walk in the marvelous curious wonderful path that is the kingdom of God that we have everything. It is a radical balance approach to life that is at once challenging and comforting, exotic and familiar, freeing and constraining, intoxicating and sobering. It creates a life that seems to walk on air while at the same time deeply rooted on solid ground reaching out in all directions with no limits. It’s the way Jesus lived.
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