“Kingdom” makes me think of romance—for instance, Westley and Buttercup in The Princess Bride, where not even the evil prince Humperdinck could stand in the way of true love.

It wasn’t very romantic in real life back then. Emperors and kings lived the high life with banquets and palaces, but life for ordinary folks was pretty hard. If a disease struck your village, there was no doctor or hospital. If the king was a bad ruler, you couldn’t vote him out of office. Life must have seemed uncertain and unfair.

So when Paul writes that nothing can separate us from God’s love—not famine, disease, warfare, human rulers, or cosmic powers—he was describing a kingdom different from anything his audience had experienced. There is no power greater than God, so no matter what comes, you can know that you are in God’s loving care.

Hmm. This kingdom sounds great, but where is it? How can I find it? That’s what this week is all about.

By Richard Vinson from D365