Be In the World

Bro. Robbins · #18 03-08-2012, 08:27 AM

First off...bbyrd009, not really sure why you felt the need to put my name in a thread I wasn't even commenting on... but okay.... just seems a little weird, LOL.

First off, the "I'll fly away... " mentality, vocabulary, and even music is out of poor use of definition and wording, but relays the same message. First off, you have to agree that "heaven" is where a soul is resting with the Lord until the end time. So it's that resting place, "to be absent from the body..." Secondly, many folks are really talking about that place with the walls of Jasper, gates of Pearl, etc... which really is the New Jeruselam, and not heaven (which literally means third heaven, the outer space). 99% of the time, they are talking about that eternal place of reward, where the streets are of gold, walls of jasper, etc.... which is the New Jeruselam, which will be on the New Earth....

Now, this Scripture at hand... I honestly don't think this Scripture really has much that's hard to understand, and if we want to over complicate it, we can, but it's simple....

Be in the world.... don't be isolationists. Now that you are mine, don't go off into the woods and build a compound waiting for me to take ya... Don't forget that now you are to be a highways and biways people, still using the gift of love and relationship to be my witnesses to those that don't know me. Walk, work, live, raise your families in this world... it's where I've stationed you for now....

But not of this world.... do your business according to the dictates of the Kingdom of God, where your citizenship is. You are bound by a different code of conduct, a different way of relating to struggles, problems, challenges, and even people. You won't find joy in everything your surroundings finds joy in, you won't find anxiety in all the things your surroundings finds anxiety in.

This Scripture isn't hard at all, it's the orders you give any Ambassodor. Go live in that country, get to know the people, do business with them, understand them, communicate and love on them... but always remember you represent a different Kingdom... and your overall code of conduct, and foundation of understanding is based there. Your not in that land to be a citizen, but merely an ambassador and representative of the Kingdom of which you belong. Don't go sit in the embassy and wait till your assignment is over.... Go live... but live like a man/woman, from another land.