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God’s Kingdom today
is a real exercise,
But when Christ comes to reign
it will be a great prize;
It is wisdom divine
that we now may be trained
That His plan be fulfilled
and His justice maintained.
God’s children, we’re born
to be kings with His Son,
And we need to be trained
that we may overcome
And to know how to rule
in His kingdom as kings,
That His kingship thru us
be expressed o’er all things.
Today we must learn
to submit to His throne,
How to have a strict life
and His government own;
His authority then
we’ll be able to share,
o’er the nations to rule
with God’s Son as the heir.
With a life strict to self
we must righteousness hold,
Kind to others in peace,
and with God joyful, bold;
In the Kingdom’s reality
e’er to remain,
For its manifestation
prepared thus to reign.
Then Christ when He comes
with the kingdom from God
Will to us grant
His kingship to share as reward;
Thus the Lord will
His righteousness thru us maintain
And His wisdom to
heavenly powers make plain.
For this the Apostle
pressed on at all cost,
For the Kingdom assured
that he would not be lost;
’Tis for this he charged others,
Be true to the Lord.
That the Kingdom might be
unto them a reward.
O Lord, give us grace
for Thy Kingdom to live,
To be trained that Thou
may the reward to us give;
Make the Kingdom’s
reality our exercise,
That its manifestation
may be our great prize.
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