Dear Kingdom Citizen,

Your way of life seems rather foolish - I hope you’re aware of that. You must’ve become conscious of this reality by now in the light of how you’ve been treated and how people have talked about you. Most of the time, you find your choices, your values, and your way of life rather out of place; as it were, you seem to be living like you’re from a different world. Half the time, people exert their energies trying to figure you out, and somehow they never manage to - unless they so decide to live with you and to partake in your life.

You’re doing well. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of your relentless decision to walk in the way of my Kingdom. The life you live now is but a prophetic alternative to the rest of the human order - even to many of the people called “Christian” in the institution called “church”. Time and again, your allegiance has been demonstrated in your refusal to act in the way most common to humankind.

Where most others have fought for their rights, you’ve refrained from so much as verbalising a complaint at how you’ve been trampled upon. Where most others have chosen to be pacifists pertaining to the wellbeing of the marginalised, you’ve expressed furious anger at such an absence of human equality and justice. Where most others have chosen to focus solely on the positivistic ethos of the religious life, you’ve not withheld your commitment to my Kingdom by seeking to correct the dislocations you see between the cause of the religious people and the cause of the Kingdom. And one more thing I love about you is this - you love my planet.

I know you suffer. I suffered. In this world, you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world! In time to come, you will witness the fuller rising of my invisible Kingdom - it will creep into the visible order unbeknownst to those who do not desire it. But for you who so desire it, you’re already seeing glimpses of this Kingdom, this state of perfected reconciliation in the order of creation. These glimpses have been effected for your sake. Yes, for your sake, beloved citizen. Just so you know I make good my promises.

Don’t give up. With eagerness, await what is to come. Yes, I am coming soon!

With my deepest affection,
Your Loving King