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SteveHale
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 The Kingdom of Heaven Is at Hand

The Kingdom of Heaven Is at Hand
Matthew 3:2


It is at hand if you go straight toward it, but if you take byways and indirect paths, you will never get there.


The Kingdom of God means replacing your will by his, leaving the ground where you are master for the element where He rules. As one throws himself into the water so also the Kingdom is entered by a leap into the void. It means repentance with faith; then one reaches it immediately, recognizing that it was indeed close by.


But men, holding eagerly to the earth and not wishing to relinquish until the last possible moment the conduct of their own affairs, have sought for oblique ways that would lead to the Kingdom of God by a longer journey but without a jolt, evading the dangerous leap into the void of faith. All the different aspects of what is called progress are some of these oblique ways. We try to draw near to God by busying ourselves with societies and with means of being fed, clothed and educated by science and ethics. It is as though a person who had to get into the sea, skirted it at length, walking along the beach. To penetrate into the new element we must come out of our own. What good is a useless journey? If it is for fear of getting wet that you hesitate to throw yourself into the water, the fear will be the same no matter where. In vain is the Kingdom at hand; if one does not go toward it without a detour, by the direct way of repentance, one will never enter it. Bypaths do not lead to the goal.

Philippe Vernier


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