Into the Realm of God we seek today, tomorrow, for evermore!

Into the Realm of God we seek today, tomorrow, for evermore!

After a series of classes in study, or the time put in as an apprentice in trades, we wonder just what we shall accomplish once we arrive at graduation.  In school, be it pre-college study, then looking at our BA, the signs from others who have reached that point present the hope that we will also find.  The same goes for the man or woman who chooses a trade in a growing society where the mechanics of building still call for people with hands that create.

God has a plan for building his kingdom into a finished product that we all can enjoy.  A person who reaches the highest level in academics gets ready to create, or teach others the same.  Someone who becomes a Master in the trade of building America will also show their abilities on the world stage and pass on their skills to new apprentices.  These attributes of learning and handing on to younger men and women will stand tall of using gifts given to us by the Holy Spirit.

The plan that God envisioned before we were born uses the same scenario of one class at a time; or one hammer or shovel that will create a city for the rest of humanity.  St. Paul has written most of the New Testament, not from works already here.  He too was inspired by the Holy Spirit and as a craftsman in trades and experience in life’s confrontations grew into a Master of Arts in a trade that presents to you and me a pattern to create God’s  kingdom for all believers.  

What is this creation that encompasses human integrity along with the grace of God that is the kingdom each of us can enjoy after our own sweat and blood?  It is the same example that God himself endured through his Son Jesus Christ.  Just like an apprentice entering a new trade or a student opening his first textbook, we all need a point of entry into a new endeavor of life.  Without the Incarnation, of which we are constantly exposed to, this world of creation could never have begun.  Each one of us has become a student of higher learning, or an apprentice who will become the builders of the spiritual world God holds before our eyes as a graduate of life.  This life is the membership in eternity with the Master of Arts;  the Holy Trinity!

In academia we wait to be called forth to receive our degree and those watching approve of his hours of study.  At an opening of a new structure the leaders of the community applaud with the citizens something to behold for everyone's use.

So it will be that the kingdom of God will be opened for us when our talents are exposed as each one contributed to God’s call and each one who now will be able to see what God used us for, not as individual success, but as a community of believers graduating together as one family.

One important attribute that remains to be absorbed; The Incarnation also held before us what Jesus encountered in his ministry; Suffering through the disbelief of those he came to redeem, and the final degree of dying for his accomplishment as a graduation into eternity.  His diploma with ribbons of success are coated with the Blood that still hangs on to the Cross of creation for this kingdom that is now present if we believe all that he taught us, for us, and because of us.  

Ralph B. Hathaway