Shortly before a tornado took her three-story home in Maryville, Indiana, Stephanie Decker said to her children, “You’re not going to die. We’re going to make it.”John makes a great spiritual application to this touching story of a mom who saves her children. Be sure to read it.
The Word of God describes this transformation as changing kingdoms. We have been brought out of darkness into the marvelous light of the Gospel. The terminology used here by Paul is a military illustration. It pictures Rome going into a free country and as a result of waging war and winning they subdue that nation and take them into captivity. But in the spiritual realm, we are the ones in bondage and when we accept The Lord Jesus and obey the Gospel, we are “transferred” (NASV) or “translated” (KJV) or are “conveyed” (NKJV) out of that bondage into the light of the Gospel. But it does not end there.
I like that phrase, "changing kingdoms." And Larry reminds us that this change of kingdoms implies in lifestyle change as well. Good thought to start the day.
The Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912 because of a basic steering error, and only sank as fast as it did because an official persuaded the captain to continue sailing
If the Lord permits his servants in eternity to look back at history and see the real reasons behind so much of what happened on earth, events will likely bring surprise after surprise. Heaven's history books must read very differently from man's explanations of what happened.
Add to that the divine causality that guided history to its end, and we will fall forever at the feet of the Enthroned One to praise him for his power and wisdom and exalt him for his guidance and protection.