Remember when 1984 was a fictitious unimaginable milestone? Now it’s just a bad year for pop music. It’s 2012, people! How did this happen? And how are we still here?

We are here, but the world is a very fragile place. There are huge gaps and discrepancies in people’s experiences. The chasm is widening between the haves and the have-nots and those in the middle are stretched to the breakpoint. Honesty, integrity, trust are concepts we remember and still value though we are not sure what they are anymore because getting by any which way seems to have replaced them all. True value is a hardware store.

And yet the kingdom of God has come to earth in the form of a Savior and all of its truths are as relevant today as they were when Christ was born. But they are different than what many purport, especially in America. The kingdom of God is not just a more conservative approach to life and culture.

The kingdom of God is an unseen reality where individuals take their cues from God through the direction of His Holy Spirit. It is a way of seeing, feeling and experiencing everything around you that makes you alert to another reality where love rules, people matter and Jesus saves. It’s simple stuff, really – God, with skin around Him, lived, touched, died and lived again, and nothing has been the same ever since, including 1984 and 2012.

The numbers are irrelevant. The truth has come. For as long as this fragile world spins, the kingdom of God will go forth, reaching, touching, loving, saving. Whatever your day job is, this is the reason for it. This is solid.

You are it. Live it today.