“Of Kingdom’s Keys And Jubilee” [Module #305] (Matthew 22:15-22)

Yes, it is true, the things there in your email –
That in regards to money we should hold
A steward’s view – we manage His resources,
And as His men do life as one who’s bold.

True as that is, that is not what I’m saying –
If I did that (and once I did for sure),
That is the road to burnout, so I’m praying
That you might hear, respond to Word’s allure.

From where you speak I hear your heart’s in heaven;
Your life indeed’s diagonal on earth;
Though once it was as heavenly as useless,
But what I say concerns our second birth –

Just like that day I viewed your little survey,
Then brought it back, and laughed right in your face –
“Give half an hour, and I will tell a story –
If not convinced then toss me from your place”.

You said, “Come in, for I have thirty minutes”;
You heard me out, Isaiah yarn and all –
“So that’s your view?! I wondered what informed you!
Well, I’ll be darned – life on diagonal!”

Well, hold your hats – you hear these keys a jangling?
The Kingdom-life is one of Jubilee!
You helped me out – let me return the favor –
For if you hear, today you will be free!

The “base” is earth – the horizontal layer –
The “life for real”, where most of us now toil;
 Where I grew up – “Grace helps us in our living;
God graces us to follow Christ about”. []

You said, “No way – I’m pressing in to heaven;
The vertical is what life’s all about;
That is my base (the flakies in my grouping
Try living there, but that’s a shaky route)”.

Relief came first when you saw it’s a mixture
Then ran around when living out that fact;
Like “Stewardship of resource, and the steward,
Belong to Christ – displayed in every act”.

You said yourself that preachers in your grouping,
They all burn out, they’re trashed before their time;
So you got out, sidestepped that vicious grinder,
But view your peers and know “their road was mine”.

I left mine too, sidestepped our grouping’s grinder;
I see their lives (“But for the grace of God…”);
Today I see both parts of that right-angle
Same problem have – in life upon the sod.

At second birth, we’re placed upon that layer,
Like overhead projector – they stack up –
God saw ahead the mop-up after Eden
Would need relief, for life on earth is tough.

You said one time, “Think kid upon a treetop,
Sees forest fire, gets folks to run where burned;
Some heed his call, are saved from raging fire” –
That’s true enough – but “back-burn” is not all –

Mix back-burn swath with kid up in the treetop,
And call it “plastic page above the base”
That is the Kingdom – we are now established;
When looking down we view our former place.

It’s middle ground, we move around with freedom;
Like water-walking far out from the boat;
A life of faith – support is “Kingdom-layer”
We’re freed to live – for Jubilee’s the note!

Our “Righteousness” is counted by our walking
On Kingdom-layer above the hue and cry;
Of daily life – you can live on the base piece,
Much harder that, for blockages there lie.

Both ways it’s faith – by grace and water walking –
For sixty years and more I walked the base;
It ground me up and folks were always stopping
Commands from Christ – I dodged the human race.

But now? Relief! Same faith, but lived in Kingdom –
That burned-out patch mixed with kid in the tree;
Like plastic layer held just above the tumult,
When lighted up life’s merged – but I’m still free.

We’re no less real than those upon the surface;
They’re no less real than those on Kingdom-layer;
It’s mix that’s a new (“diagonal” from talking),
No more ground up, but freed as Kingdom-player.

Thanks Lord for this.

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