Oh, the issues, problems, and obstacles we face. And we think our choice is to embrace it or fight it. But actually, there is a third choice, the most effective one which is hidden, ignored, and mostly unknown.

It’s the kingdom. And when I began to wake up to the inner kingdom where God lives, I began discovering this place isn’t just mine. We all have one, an inner kingdom, and it’s where the greatest power of the universe lives. It’s right here inside us.

There’s a reason God put his kingdom inside each of us. It’s so it would always be with us. Never leaving us because we need it constantly to learn how the facts of our world can be turned, transformed, and changed on behalf of ourselves and everyone we have ever loved.

We also learn that we have a responsibility to go there and sit with Jesus while he teaches us how that inner power works because our world depends on us. Not through political, social, or religious systems, but as an inherent part of ourselves. Just walking around with us all the time…changing things…everywhere…by bringing heaven to earth in reality.

I go there by choice, to allow its magnificent beauty to rise to a crescendo, surpassing everything ever created, blowing away the minuscule power of anything else to overshadow it.

You know that God, himself, lives inside you. What is he actually doing there? How does that work? How are we joined together as One? And what do we learn to rule and reign with him there?

We turn off the constant noise inundating us, the chaos distracting us from seeing our third choice. We turn away from that blind anarchy and find the kingdom inside. There we acknowledge that we aren’t alone inside and sit down with Jesus. Laying open our minds. Slowly, instead of chaos, we see the immeasurable possibilities for us to choose as we learn how to landscape our kingdom.

Also called gardening or caretaking Eden. The first step is knowing it takes imagination and dreaming with him to begin. And then, one step at a time, learning the many other skills involved.

Embracing the third choice.

Faith