Not By Might

Living by the laws and principles of the coming Kingdom of God can make all the difference in your life today.

The world recently marked the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II.

World War II sprang from failed ideologies of nations. Hitler wanted a world based on Nazism. Stalin desired a rule based on the totalitarian views of communist socialism. Both men created monstrous systems of evil that led to the death of tens of millions of humans.

No system created by man has brought about the utopian world promised by God through the prophets of the Bible.

Isaiah's vision of the wolf living with the lamb and the leopard lying down with a goat and a little child in the midst of this pastoral scene is one of the most beautiful and hopeful in the entire Bible. Venomous snakes are rendered harmless as children interact safely with them. Isaiah says, "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." (Isaiah 11:9)

This scene stands as the ideal hope for mankind. Yet no one has been able to permanently create this scene. Reading through the prophets you must conclude that only God can bring about the "millennium", the thousand year long reign of Christ on the earth as the long foretold messiah.

Reading the scriptures there is only one conclusion you can draw. It is that if you believe in God and His word, the Bible, you must believe it is in His power to bring about the conditions of the messianic age. The words of Zechariah 4:6 remind us such realities must come from God. "…This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit,' says the Lord of hosts."

Living by the laws and principles of that coming kingdom can make all the difference in your life today. The reign of the Kingdom of God on this earth is more than a dream. It is a living reality that can lift your life beyond anything you can imagine for yourself. Seize it now and begin to live it today.