The Kingdom of God is like...

I love the Gospel stories that attempt to describe what the Kingdom of God is like. This Sunday's reading is one of them, it is the parable of the Mustard Bush. Yes, the Mustard Bush, that is all the rage now, to say bush rather than seed. You see, the fact that Jesus decided to compare the Kingdom of God to a bush was very intentional on his part. A bush! The Kingdom of God, this thing that is so wonderful and great and amazing and cool and overwhelming and glorious and beautiful is being compared to a BUSH!!! That has so many worrisome connotations in this day and age.

The Kingdom of God is nothing like we expect, it is nothing like we would ever imagine. Which makes me, anyway, imagine harder about what it is like. I love trying to come up with modern day parpables of what the Kingdom of God is like, post some of your own in the comments section and lets see if we can come up with some fun ones.

The Kingdom of God is like a goal scored in soccer. The development of the goal always happens because of some unforseen or unknown factor, moments or minutes before the goal is scored. (And no, for all you naysayers, it is not becasue goals are so rarely scored.)

The Kingdom of God is like fishing, you never know what you will have at the end of your line.

The Kingdom of God is like Gethsemane, around every corner, something or someone is being made new.

We are a people of hope, I saw a movie that was one of the last movies I ever expected to get some sort of hopeful message from, it is called Aeon Flux, it is based on a cartoon that was on MTV in my youth. A virus wiped out 99% of the worlds population and they all gathered in a city called Bregna that became known as paradise, the perfect civilization, which of course means its not, and is royally corrupt. The people who die or are killed by the government are cloned and esentially "brought back to life", in a way. The message that I was surprised to hear was that we are given one chance to live on this world and then we die, and we die so we can get out of the way of others who may be able to live even better than we did. It was quite surprising, and could have been a great movie had they made that the centerpiece of the plot. But, I thought, what an interesting concept, we live, then we die so we can get out of the way of those who follow. Not sure how the Kingdom of God is in that, but I think there is something there.

Well, come by and listen to the sermon on Sunday if you get a chance, should be a fun one!
Be well,
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