In the kingdom system, God honours us by giving us an opportunity to seek and rediscover hidden treasure.So, after the resurrection of Jesus, people who were closest to Him could hardly recognize Him literally – Lk. 24:13-31; Mk. 16:12.
They had to discern Him. To discern goes beyond literally looking at somebody, walking for long with the person, or talking much to the person. All these things were done by some two disciples of Jesus, but they still could not discern Jesus with them. To discern is to recognize somebody or something about a person that is not clear on the face of it.
No matter how close you are to Jesus, and how you have seen Him literally before, walked with Him for long in the Christian life, talked with Him for long as a minister or believer, you still have to discern Jesus. It is because after Jesus’ resurrection, God wants us to seek Him after the kingdom order.
In the kingdom system, it is the glory of God to hide things and our honour as kings to search for it and thoroughly know it -Prov. 25:2. This is how the kingdom system is designed to work. God lives in this system Himself. So, He searches to know us, as an example for us to seek and find hidden treasures – Ps. 139:1.
Therefore, God likes to hide when He wants to save us, by first testing us to know what is in our hearts, and what we will do when we cannot discern Him – Is. 45:15; 2 Chron. 32:31; Job 23:8-10; 1 Sam. 13:5-14.
Are we going to strive to seek Jesus or we are going to give up on seeking Him when we cannot make Him out in the circumstances of our lives?
The heart of kings is to be a seeking one. Secular and spiritual kings or leaders are to be researchers of hidden treasures.This is why God tells us in the kingdom system to seek Him and His kingdom order – Heb. 11:6; Matt. 6:33.
Although God and the kingdom order is not far away from us, because we already live in, move in and have our being in them, we still have to seek them – Acts 17:27-28.
So, seeking God and His kingdom-order is not negated even when you are in them already. That is how God has designed the kingdom system. It is so easy to take for granted and assume that, you know and understand what you are in already. That is the weakness of humans. We are often
blind to what we are in, what we are and have already.
So, the eyes of your heart have to be spiritually opened to discern the resurrected Jesus and His kingdom system – Lk. 24:31; 44-45; Acts 16:14. This is especially needed when you have matured in the old-order of God.
