A New Kingdom

Welcome to Hope Mommies In the Word devotionals. Over the next several weeks, we will be narrowing in on specific truths of the gospel to learn how they direct and inform us in our grief. As we study these truths together, we’d love you to use the comments as a place to dialogue with us about what you are learning and share your answers to the questions below. We pray that you hearts will be encouraged as you dig into God’s Word each week with us! 

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God,
so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
Hebrews 11:3

READ:

After my daughter went home to glory, I went back to my home here on earth—and all of the time I had experienced with her while she was in the womb, felt invisible. I went home with no proof that she had been on this earth at all. I’m still missing that proof—her—and this still provokes tears as I type.

I miss her. My comfort has not come by her absence no longer giving sorrow to my spirit. Missing my daughter has punctuated the reality that this world is fading away—I experienced my daughter fading away far sooner than expected, and shockingly without warning. But the whole earth is passing away. I am passing away.

Yet, there is a song I hear that holds a clearer and truer pitch than anything this earth can produce. The song I hear with clarity is, brilliantly, of another place, another kingdom. It’s an expansive and sweeping melody telling me that I am not in the most “real” place; she is in the place that does not fade away.

Christ has inaugurated a new kingdom. It’s presently invisible to us; it’s not of this world. But, oh, it’s real. It is by faith that we believe and understand this invisible kingdom. It is faith that opens our eyes to see that the invisible is indeed real.

REFLECT:

1. Read 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. How do these verses inform our understanding of this invisible but real kingdom?
2. How can a greater focus on this new kingdom bring comfort to our hearts in the midst of grief?

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