Monday, January 19

God’s kingdom

Adam desired a greater authority than God had given, and inherited shame and doom. He would be God’s rival and thereby set himself against God, siding with the enemy.

Jesus desired to serve His Father, and inherited a dominion beyond the dreams of Adam or of Satan: a dominion that does not rival God’s Kingdom, but that is one with His Kingdom.

— Edmund P. Clowney
The Unfolding Mystery
(Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1988), 32