Myles Munroe - Rediscovering the Kingdom Daily Devotional Journal: A 40-Day Personal Journey

Copyright 2004 Myles Munroe

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I t was five oclock in the morning and I had not slept all night. I was nervous and anxious. It was the big daytime for the test I dreaded. It was a memorable day during my years at the university. I had studied all night and faithfully read all my notes, books, and reviews. It was my final biology test. The focus of this class was the human anatomy.

At the end of the test I felt confident that I had done well. Three days later I was proven right when my professor called me in to congratulate me for receiving the top grade in the class. I was so proud of myself and felt I had achieved something outstanding. As I stood there looking at the papers he handed to me, I suddenly realized something I had never thought of. Throughout this course of study I had become well educated in the knowledge of the human bodythe names, purposes, and functions all of its intricate parts and organs. The thought that struck me was that I knew what the human body was but did not know why the human was. In other words, I knew the product but did not know its purpose.

This youthful discovery still motivates me today. There are over 6 billion people on planet earth and only a few of them know why they exist. What a tragedy! Who is man? Why was man created? Why was he put on this planet? What is he to do? Where did he come from? What can he do? Where is he going? These questions strike at the heart of all human pursuit. All that men want to know are the answers to these questions.

Are humans simply a link in some evolutionary chain, as proclaimed by the theologians of evolution? Are we simply sophisticated primates participating in the drama of the survival of the fittest? Are we simply a freak accident of some cosmic big-bang mishap from which we emerged from the slime of some cosmic soup as the magnificent reasoning self-conscious being to which we have evolved today? I find it impossible to believe that anyone could believe such a theory. This unreasonable, unsubstantiated, unproven theoretical proposition has no foundation in truth and desecrates the truth of mans origin. It dilutes and diminishes his glorious purpose.

Man is the crowning act of an intentional Creator. He exists as Gods co-regent in a world created for him. In examining mankind we will discover the beauty and the mystery of Gods purpose for the whole of creation.

It seems that the end of all things will be discovered in the beginning of all things. Therefore, we will begin our study by considering Gods original plan for His creation. Quite obviously, if we seek to understand the creation, we must first understand the Creator, because the original purpose of any product is only in the mind of the creator of that product. Therefore, to discover the purpose and reason for mankinds creation and existence, we must attempt to tap into the mind of his Creator. After all no one knows the product like the manufacturer.

First, it is essential to understand that before anything was, God is. The word God denotes self-existing one or self-sufficient one and describes a being that needed nothing or no one to exist. Therefore God is not a name but rather a description of a character. Because of who and what He is, He alone qualifies for the title of God. This totally independent God existed before all things and began His creative process by first producing the entire invisible world, which we also have come to know as the supera or above natural world. This act of creation initiated the concept of ruler and ruler-ship as the Creator became the governor over a created realm. Another word for ruler is king. God called this invisible realm or domain heaven and thus He became the King over the domain, heaven.

This was the beginning and creation of the first kingdom called the invisible Kingdom of God. This was also the introduction of the concept of kingdom. This concept of kingdom is critical, essential, necessary, required, and imperative in order to understand, appreciate, and comprehend the purpose, intent, goal, and objectives of God and mankinds relationship to Him and the creation.

It is not unreasonable to ask why God, the King of heaven, would want to create sons in His image and a visible universe. Was He not satisfied and pleased with an invisible realm of angels and powers to rule? I believe the answer to these questions lies in understanding the very nature of God Himself. There is much about this great awesome, self-sustaining One that we do not, cannot, and may never know, but He has revealed enough of Himself to mankind to allow us to glimpse some of the magnificence of His nature and character.

One such characteristic is that God is love (1 John 4:8,16). Please note that He does not say that He has love but that He is love. This is an important distinction when it comes to understanding His motivation, because if God is love, then His actions would naturally or supernaturally be the manifestation of the nature of love. One of the obvious qualities of love is that love has to give and share itself. If this be so, then the very nature of God would be to desire to share His rulership and government. In essence, love is fulfilled when it gives and shares itself.

It is this inherent nature of love that motivated the King of heaven to create spirit children (called mankind) to share His Kingdom rulership. In other words, man was created for the purpose of rulership and leadership. This is why in the message of Jesus, when He described the age of the Kingdom of God and its provision for man, His indication was that this Kingdom belonged to man before earth was created.

Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, you who are blessed by My Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world (Matthew 25:34).

It was Gods idea to share His invisible Kingdom with His offspring, which He called mankind, and give to them His nature and characteristics.