If you would see the Kingdom, you must be born again.  If you would enter into His life, His Word of life must come into you as a seed and begin to grow.

Everything starts small.  It starts obscure.  We do not despise the smallness, but we understand that everything which is planted, in its full time, grows to maturity.

From the yeast beginning with just a small bit for the entire dough, to the mustard seed which would grow, the life of the Spirit must begin very small, yet grow to its size.

It’s quite possible to get discouraged, or to get side-tracked.  The heart of Peter inquired of the Lord, saying, “[W]e have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?” (Matthew 19:27).  The Lord responded, “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.” (v29).

You MUST forsake everything to follow the LORD. (Luke 14:33).  This may or may not include the loss of all personal belongings, but in your heart, and in your spirit, what you hold onto, holds you.

It costs a life.  Your life.  All of it, every day.  If you don’t want to pay it, don’t start down the road.  But, if you see what you’re gaining, if your heart catches a glimpse by faith, and diligently separates itself from every entanglement, it is “for joy” (Matthew 13:44) that everything is sold.

God loves us, and justifies us, demonstrating his love for us in this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  He saved us, washed us, made us new creations, gave us a new heart and a new spirit, and transferred us out of the dominion, domination and excessive crushing and ruling force of darkness, and transferred us, crossed us over, transplanted or relocated us, into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son.  He changes us to hate sin, and to love righteousness by His Spirit. By living in that Spirit, we live free.

Yet, we are told, it is the pure in heart that will see God.

Unless we become as little children, we will never enter the Kingdom of heaven (Matthew 18:3).  Much of the church world has gotten it wrong.

They teach us that seeing things like angels and hearing from God are fringe, and potentially shaky ground.  Yet Jesus told Nathaniel that he would see angels going up and down opon Himself (John 1:50-51).  We’re told that words like “trance” are false, yet Peter, in Acts 11:5, saw his vision while in a trance.  We are often rightly warned to avoid the worship of angels (Colosians 2:18), yet awareness, knowledge, talk, and recognition is no more worship of them than acknowledgement of  the enemy is in saying that he prowls around like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8).  Jesus told Nathaniel that he would see angels after commending him for having no guile.  Whereas, with Nicodemus, when he had trouble believing even about the new birth, Jesus responded, “I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?” (John 3:12).  That is, if talking about things which are experienced here in the demonstrable, physical, and touchable world are hard for someone to grasp, it will be even harder to grasp the invisible, the Eternal, that of the Kingdom.

You see, it is simplicity, not complexity, that makes for something to Jesus.  He said, if your eye be single, without folds, you whole body would be full of light.  If you have no dark corners, it is like the light of a lamp is shining on you.

Do you want to see the Kingdom?  Lose your life to looking at only One Thing.  David said,

One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek:

That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,

To behold the beauty of the LORD

And to meditate in His temple.

Psalm 27:4

What is it to see the Kingdom?  What is it to see what no normal person can see (John 3:3)?  What is it that prophets desired to understand, and angels desired to peer into?

The least in the Kingdom is greater than anyone without.