day no. 17,109: Christendom come... on earth as it is in Heaven

“Christendom will be easier to see when it can be photographed, but we are called to see it whether it can be photographed or not.” — Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

Christendom come... on earth as it is in Heaven. 

We pray for God's kingdom to materialize, not for it to evaporate. We want it to come, not go.

We work for a world we will not inhabit, but not because it is inherently inhabitable, like a world made out of mist up in the clouds, but because it is in the future where we will be part of the soil on which it is built. We look to a land on which our legs will never walk.

2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

To build Christendom, you have to see it in the Scriptures and in the will of God before you go forward. And once you see it there, you must go forward without seeing it realized in your lifetime. 

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Just like the saints of old, we work for a better city — one which we long to see and someday in our resurrected bodies will see, but for now must see by faith.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar,