The Reign of God
“And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” (Mark 1:11 )
What we believe as Mennonites comes from the scriptures as we understand them through the Divine assistance of the Holy Spirit. The New Testament tells us who Jesus was and what Jesus Christ taught and passed on to his followers. It tells through many vignettes the story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. The Old Testament tells the story of God’s people being formed and/or the struggle to be formed into a faithful nation. God is in heaven. All instruction and truth comes from heaven where our Lord dwells. When all things have come about as foreseen by God, God will gather again creation to the God-self and we will be returned to our Lord. Until that time, we dwell on earth while God dwells in heaven. What comes from God’s heaven we heed and obey. And we strain to listen for God’s voice that the Lord might say to us, “you are my child, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
May you gentle reader listen from God’s voice and dwell under God’s reign until the end of this age, and into the new age. Selah!
[This is the last article in the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective . Tomorrow we will start again with the "Sip of Scripture" being a scripture passage from the first article in the confession faith. I will again identify which article each scripture passage is associated with.]
