Magic Kingdom can’t be entered without a ticket. The ticket will change in color and price daily, but everyone knows, you must acquire that day’s entrance pass, or you remain outside the gate.
The greatest and most magical kingdom of all is the heavenly kingdom of God. What’s the entrance pass to enter into our heavenly home?
How can we know? Does God leave us to figure it ourselves?
God makes it no mystery at all.
It’s not popular opinion.
It’s not intellectual discovery.
It can’t be acquired by earnings or points.
God’s ways are made plain. God’s plan unfolds. A look to the heavens brings awe and question, but is our faith complete through nature alone?
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ Romans 10:17.
The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him John 1:9,10.
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him John 1:11.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God John 1: 12, 13.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. What is truth? What is life? What way do we go?
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth John 1: 14.
Where’s the light that reveals the solid rock path so we may cross the rough rivers of this life? Where’s the hope in this dark world?
He’s a Person. The Son who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus is the ticket! Have we received Him? Do we believe in His name? He gives us right to become children of God.
Have you read His invitation?
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David Isaiah 55: 1-3.
Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon Isaiah 55: 6,7.
Will we open the pages of God’s Book? Will we receive His word above man?
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts Isaiah 55:8,9.
Who will hear? Who will believe God above man?
As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it Isaiah 55: 10,11.
Oh how we need truth to set us free. We can have the ticket, even now:
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me John 14:6.
Today, today . . . who will believe?
Do we ask, “What’s in it for me?”
Jesus speaks,
You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.” Isaiah 55:12, 13.
“Come into my life Light and Truth. Come into my life and show me Your way. Come into my life, Lord Jesus.”
The gatekeeper says,
Enter into His gates . . . (Psalm 100:4),
and we will,
with thanksgiving, . . . into His courts with praise Psalm 100:4.
