A Different 'Kingdom'

"Open your eyes, My people!
Return to your first love—
return to the Cross!

I am not leading you to
'advance the kingdom' and use
the ways of the earth's kingdoms!

The devotion I am calling you to
is not to 'change the nations'
but rather to love your neighbor!

My kingdom is not spread by greater focus
on 'strategic warfare' and 'taking nations',
but rather by loving 'the least of these'!

Do not seek to build a 'kingdom' through
means I did not teach you or model for you;
do not follow another 'Christ' to another 'kingdom'!"

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Art: "Prophets of Different Fathers"