Reprioritize and Recenter

Matthew 13:31-33,44-52

We explore more of Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, this week.

We might be emotionally and energetically drained by events over which we have no control, like a power outage. Rather than being actors in the drama of our own lives, we might be re-actors.

Instead of being whole, much of the time we might be shattered, in pieces, despite the fundamental groundedness in God at the core of our own beings.

We can grow up into Christ and not be tossed every which way. In Christ we find freedom from the bondage of our outer circumstances, in the Kingdom of Heaven within.

This is the one true treasure, hidden within and buried within the field of ourselves. We can sell the “farm” and put our whole being into the Kingdom of God, desirable and priceless, within.

We can reprioritize all else, which we must do to recenter our lives in the love of God, in the Kingdom of God within.

By forsaking all things as “gods” to be worshipped, we regain them from our personal center in the Kingdom of Heaven within us. Thus we become actors rather than re-actors in the drama of our own lives.

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