Building His Kingdom

Andrée Seu delivers yet another insightful essay in WORLD Magazine this week. "Plucked out of the Burning" was encouraging for me to read -- the Kingdom of God is not dependent on me having it "all together" in order to be a member. He takes me as I am. But hallelujah -- He doesn't just stop there -- He then imprints the glorious image of His Son on our soul as He perfects Christ in us and causes Christ to flow out. Amazing.

"...Firebrand preachers and lackluster husbands. Men of both prayer and clinical morbidity. Women of wisdom given to gluttony. Samson making shipwreck of his life but taking the prophets of Dagon down with him. How do you tally the sum of this? Where do you put the coordinating conjunction? "Wesley was a great soul winner, but he sure was a lousy husband!" or, "Wesley was a lousy husband, but what a soul winner!"
...Out of such raw material God is pleased to build His kingdom, the better to show the power is from Him.
The Lord will judge. And when He does (on that Day when no flesh shall boast), I know His weights and measures will be fair, and tempered with a better love than mine, and that the Wisdom who was by His side when He established earth and sky will cast His judgment in our favor."

Read the rest of Seu's account of the Kingdom that is made up of those "plucked from the burning."