I have been reading about religion and the afterlife. Jesus spoke about the second coming and about the Kingdom of God. However, when I studied the Bible, it sounded like the apostles and His followers believed that the second coming would happen in their lifetimes. The end was near and yet it is now 2000 years later.
I get the feeling that people write what they want to write to make things make sense sometimes. I’m not sure how much of what is written is meant literally and how much is written to give us comfort spiritually. However, I feel that I am not meant to live my life as if I am worried about the past or future. I am supposed to live in this moment here and now. I also believe that this moment exists for God, except instead of being one moment it’s a lifetime. That moment for God is but a second and an eternity all at the same time. It’s an understanding of time that I can’t understand because I have a limited human brain. Yet, I understand that when Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of God, it wasn’t getting to a place sometimes in the future. The Kingdom of God exists all around us in a way we just don’t understand. It’s something that has been there since the beginning of time, and it will exist forever. I don’t need to go to this place or finally arrive there when I die. The Kingdom of God exist because God exist. When I have a connection to God and the universe then I can connect to that Kingdom of God and maybe when I die, my spirit won’t be held back by all my humanity and I will be able to really immerse myself into the universe in ways I never dreamed of, but until that happens, when I contemplate this idea that God has a Kingdom in a distance place and in a time to come, I have to remind myself that God exist outside of time and space. He is here and now. I trust in Him and that’s all I need to know.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
