Christians preach the gospel of a new King and a new Kingdom, but it can often just be words we use as our lives play out according to old kingdom rules. I'm reading a book titled Child 44 in which the two main characters choose to defy the state while living in Stalin's Soviet Union. I was struck by a particular passage that gets to the heart of our old life in the State (as much for capitalist Americans as communist Russians) vs. our new life in the Kingdom.
It went against her governing principle - survival. She was accepting an immeasurable risk when an alternative presented itself to her. What had changed? Energized, excited, she didn't want to return to her former subsistence existence, wondering how much of her soul she'd have to slice off and sell in order to survive.
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