Sunday, May 15th
Thine is the Kingdom
Matthew 6:13

The reign of the Father is the rule of love. But its challenges and requirements of its subjects are no less stringent because love is the fabric and the very air breathed by its subjects. Indeed, all who have locked even superficially at the course of My life on earth can see that because love is the dynamic heartbeat of the life of the Kingdom My earthly life was committed in every respect to the rhythm which the Father had put before Me. And alienation from the leaders of My people, the Jewish nation, and ignominious death, were the cost and triumph and the pathway the Father gave Me to offer all who are committed to Him in life and love.

No one on earth has ever been called on to live the life of costly discipleship as I, nor ever could. The costliness of the life of every child of the Father who seeks to be a child of His Kingdom is in the totality of self-giving. According to the measure of self-giving is the possibility of suffering and sometimes of uncertainty, but increasingly that child will have the assurance of the Father's love , Our Holy Spirit's lead and of the joy of My indwelling presence.

All this and so much more are involved in those words I gave when I taught My Disciples to pray. Those who seek to progress and grow in the life of the spirit must let Me daily, hourly, illuminate the meaning of the words and the way to live and work in the light of them "Thine is the kingdom."