Why not a revolution...

The house next door is for sale. The neighbors put a sign in front to indicate what is going on. It said, "For Sale." No one asked the owners shouldn't they give this house another try. No one asked, what about the tradition of them living in the house, the neighborhood, this county. No one. No one said the sign is too stark and had communist overtones in the colors: red, black and white. No, people started bidding.

I am not calling for a revolution, I think we are smack-dab in the middle of it. I just want to put the sign out front. It is not about the American church, it is about being Jesus. This is not revival, it is code blue and it needs to be resurrection. I don't think we are to start up a revolution, it has been going on since Christ was born, crucified, and resurrected.

The life we live must be thought as revolutionary and not mainstream. Even in a "christian society" we must think this way. There is a difference between the values of the Kingdom and a life of faith. There aren't any holes in the hands of values. This Kingdom life is lived with holes in our hands, for we are crucified with Christ.

Jesus entered into a religious society as well as a society under dominance by the Romans. Both groups were suspicious of Jesus. Both groups plotted. Throw in a new group, the Subversives. They didn't plot they hoped that Jesus was one of them. A new subversive. The Iscariot thought he was the new Reformer, the latest of the Maccabees. Jesus identified the poor, outcast, sick and others who fit into the proletariat of the times, as those having a place in the new Kingdom. The time was ripe for an overthrow. People were tired, the poor increasing, taxes were too much and getting worse, gas prices were at $3.00 or more.

As Jesus enters the city, people were shouting out Hail Messiah, those in power tell him to quiet your people. He said, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!" The revolution is more than people, it involves nature. The people are fickle, a week later they are shouting out, "Give us Barrabus!" When people found out it wasn't about the overthrow, they left, they left big. Judas pushed, Jesus died.

Our prayer, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in heaven..." is a radical cry. Just start asking for The Will in your life and live it for a week. It is not a prayer for God to make The Will happen, it is ours to live according to The Will. That is FAITH, radical faith. Whole in the hand faith.

Jesus' revolution happens in the heart and knees which will have impact in the marketplace and the streets, bedrooms and boardrooms, pulpits and preschools, hospitals and concerts halls.

When Jesus tells us to repent, turn or revolve in a new direction. Align yourself with the direction of the Kingdom. When we are not aligned with the Kingdom, there needs a revolution, a revolving.

Am I starting to make sense?

More to come...