Metaphors of the Kingdom of God Christina P. Cuzzort Grand Canyon University BIB123 New Testament History November 11, 2009 The article, Tame talks about the fresh new metaphor of the Kingdom of God. There are two contemporary metaphors to describe the kingdom of God. It inspired by the camel traveling through the eye of a needle and parable of the yeast in the dough. You could say the kingdom of God is like a women shopping for makeup. She uses the same kind many times before but each time the make up gets to be more and more plan.
She thinks about the cost of buy different makeup every time she puts it on. She knows that new makeup is a little more pricey so like always she puts it on hold one more day. After thinking about it she thinks just how long does it take me to put on my makeup and just how long does it take me to make enough money to buy new makeup. Finally she gives up and goes to the mall and buys the same thing. The next morning she repeats the process all over again but this time wishing that she would have bought different makeup and not waits.
People are being called into the kingdom of God everyday but just like the women she is not willing to buy new makeup, most of them are not willing to change their lives because they feel that there is no other option. People use the same things to get buy everyday. They will go through life wasting there relationships. Such as fighting with their husbands or even cheating their way through life just to get ahead and be better then the next person. This will never change because the cost of changing is way too pricey just like the makeup.
Some will never change even when they are on their knees and the gates have open and they see a new option. You have to want change before you can change. I have heard some people look at the kingdom of God as a great and powerful email. That was well thought out by the first author. Once forwarded to love ones, friend and even co-workers. However once you hit the send button it is then put into the spam inbox. Which we all know that we do not check the spam but the one person that does check her spam is having a really hard day opens it and reads it.
After he or she has read it and it to has touched them, then he or she will send it to one hundred close friends and family who think the way they do. There is one lost sheep who gets it and reads its. Who then forwards it to other lost sheep because he did not know it was wrong. So by the end of the day the one lost sheep ahs forwarded to everyone in his email and in his phone. If you think about it those who know the gospel very well are the ones likely not to forward anything. There are some sheep’s that has heard it so many times that it does not click with them.
Most if not all of the time the message from the kingdom of God is often pushed back to be seen as Sunday service. It is those who are touched, who can hear the message from God. All most all of these sheeps can be identified by their willingness to share with anyone and everyone. References: • Goodenough, E. R. (1967). The Ethical Teaching of Jesus. The Jewish Quarterly Review, (57), 243-266. • Huffman, N. A. (1978). Atypical Features in the Parables of Jesus. Journal of Biblical Literature. (97), 207-220. • Robinson, B. W. (1904). Some Elements of Forcefulness in Jesus’ Comparisons. Journal of Biblical Literature. (23), 106-179.
