The scriptures teach us that we are to believe for the kingdom coming on this earth; Jesus taught us to pray to our Father this way: “Your Kingdom Come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Christ also said that the kingdom is like a leaven that leavens the whole lump of dough (Matthew 13:33). The leaven changes the dough, as the Kingdom of God is to change us through the relationship Christ opened up for us to have with the Father. Jesus Christ is the model of this relationship with God, He came as a man and He learned obedience by the things that He suffered (Hebrews 5:7-9). Like Christ, we must submit our will whole-heartedly to our Father and allow the leaven of His kingdom to begin transforming our hearts. If we look around and cannot tell the difference between ourselves and the world around us, then we have not allowed the leaven to change us. Are we willing to change, or are we going to continue fighting God’s will for us?
We do not need to focus on changing the things we cannot understand, we just need to start walking in the light we have received. Christ gave us an example to follow, an example of obedience, humility, forgiveness and love (John 13:12-17). He lived in the word and His every action was a reflection of that lifestyle. We know how to be kind, forgiving and loving to one another. These are the simple things we have been asked to walk in, the steps we understand. We do not have to worry about everything else God is doing in our lives, or in the world around us; we just need to be obedient to the instructions we have received (Deuteronomy 29:29). We are not here to do our own will, we are here to learn a relationship with the Father. This is the meaning of being ambassadors for Christ.
“Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God” (2 Corinthians 5:17–20).
Ephesians 4:11-16
Philippians 2:1-8