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Renungan Kerajaan Allah Di Bumi

Baca: Lukas 17:20-37

"juga orang tidak dapat mengatakan: Lihat, ia ada di sini atau ia ada di sana! Sebab sesungguhnya Kerajaan Allah ada di antara kamu." (Lukas 17:21)

Suatu hari orang-orang Farisi bertanya kepada Yesus, bilamana Kerajaan Allah akan datang. Yesus menjawab, "Kerajaan Allah datang tanpa tanda-tanda lahiriah, juga orang tidak dapat mengatakan: Lihat, ia ada di sini atau ia ada di sana! Sebab sesungguhnya Kerajaan Allah ada di antara kamu." (ayat 20-21). Apakah maksud Yesus ketika Ia mengatakan ini kepada orang-orang Farisi? Maksudnya adalah Ia ingin berkata: "Aku di sini".

Kita semua tahu bahwa Kerajaan Allah tidak dapat berada di antara orang-orang Farisi, tetapi hari itu Kerajaan telah berada di antara mereka karena seorang Raja ada di tengah-tengah mereka. Kehadiran Yesus menunjukkan bahwa hukum Allah tidak terbelenggu, artinya "Di mana Yesus berada, di situlah KerajaanNya." Alkitab menyatakan: "Bagi Dia, yang mengasihi kita dan yang telah melepaskan kita dari dosa kita oleh darahNya - dan yang telah membuat kita menjadi suatu kerajaan, menjadi imam-imam bagi Allah, BapaNya, - bagi Dialah kemuliaan dan kuasa sampai selama-lamanya. Amin." (Wahyu 1:5b-6).

Penebusan Kristus menegaskan bahwa kita telah dijadikanNya sebagai kerajaan. Artinya, tidak hanya di mana Yesus berada kerajaanNya ada, tetapi di mana gerejaNya berada di situlah Kerajaan Allah ditegakkan. Ini merupakan tempat di mana Dia bebas menunjukkan otoritasNya, karena Dia harus memiliki ruang gerak agar kerajaanNya, kuasaNya dan kemuliaanNya dapat bekerja dengan bebas. Yang penting bukanlah imbalan yang akan kita peroleh atau kedudukan dalam kerajaan Allah, seperti yang disampaikan Yakobus dan Yohanes kepada Yesus: "Perkenankanlah kami duduk dalam kemuliaanMu kelak, yang seorang di sebelah kananMu dan yang seorang lagi di sebelah kiriMu." (Markus 10:37), tetapi yang terutama adalah melakukan peranan gereja untuk menghadirkan KerajaanNya di bumi ini.

Sudahkah kita menjalankan tugas menghadirkan 'KerajaanNya'? Orang dunia akan melihat 'KerajaanNya' ketika ada buah roh dalam kehidupan kita, yang menunjukkan bahwa hidup kita bukan kita lagi, melainkan Kristus yang hidup di dalam kita.

Dengan melakukan kehendak Tuhan kita menghadirkan KerajaanNya di antara manusia di bumi.

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