But sure enough,
they could not see it, it was veiled with human flesh in front of their own eyes.
The kingdom of God is not a physical place, although it occupies one, nor is it
an imaginary country, but a higher realm of reality, imperceptible to the natural
man but most assuredly apprehensible through God’s appointed means and terms.
The “kingdom of
God” refers rather to the realm of his kingship, the majesty of his sovereignty,
the absoluteness of his undisputable authority; the plenteousness of God’s
personal diversity and the plethora of His unity, the exuberance of His
torrential love, the magnificence of His benevolence, the splendor of His vigorous,
harmonious and congruent character, the extreme beauty of His freely chosen righteousness,
the splendid brilliance of His illustriousness, the profound acuteness and
humble disposition of His wisdom, The
palpitating synergy and melodious symphony of the ever-emerging creativity of
His artisan-ship, The awesomeness of His majestic presence, the splendorous
glory of His dignity and impressing demeanor of the King of the universe, the astonishing
sphere of His unique omnipotence, the breathtaking wonder of His respectful
rule, The mysterious paradox of His sublime meekness, the unexpected dimension
of His ever present spirituality, the honorable comportment of His astounding
incarnation, the ingenious hiddenness of all of this, behind the human who was
before their eyes and whose name was Jesus, God’s ambassador dressed in poverty,
with no human license of any sort to prove what he would say, no army to
protect him or prove he was the One. Simple folks would believe him, but who
from the high class would dare to risk position for the sake of identifying
with this simple carpenter, unique communicator who would enlighten and give
meaning to every facet of life with his Word, but whose own brothers would not
believe in Him; controversial Messenger from Heaven clothed with real earth,
easy to despise, deny or ignore because of his unleavened humanity as real as any
other.
How can you
guess or look through him the glory of the otherness and hiddenness of God we
have just described?
What is then
necessary, -I suppose some humble ones from the multitude would have asked-, to
enter and belong to this kingdom of God, to see behind the veil and actually to
dwell there?
This is the very
question that Nicodemus, a prominent Pharisee, thought; (and many of us have
probably asked in our lives at least once), coming one night to Jesus, trying
for no one to notice. Jesus answered: from heaven above you must be borne, not
from flesh, nor from blood, but from God must you be borne.[2]
Unto others both John the Baptist [3] and
Jesus himself would preach: “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”. [4]
Unfortunately,
the word repent does not seem to carry the full meaning of the Greek word it
translates which is “meta-noia” that not only means a change of mind but also
to transcend it, since the word meta also means beyond, as you can see in the
word metaphysics which means beyond physics. So Nicodemus and the rest of us
unto whom God’s Kingdom is presented to be at hand, must not only change the natural
way of looking at reality but also transcend it by faith and thus enter into
God´s dwelling place as new born babes in filial relationship to the living,
awesome, powerful God of the Universe trough Jesus Christ his eternal Son. Could
not this be what entering into God’s
Kingdom mean.
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