If the Kingdom Fits

In the Gospels, John the Baptist comes with a pointed message, a message Jesus will later take as his own:  Repent (change your heart and your lives)for the Kingdom of God is at hand.  While each gospel has its own way of presenting the message, the impact is the same....turn Godward.  You kind of get the sense that John believes we best get on board with this drama God is writing or be swept aside.

What strikes me about all this is that John understands that God is up to something that we repent into like a train passing through town that we need to board or a wave approaching we need to surrender to.

In short, we are not trying to make God fit into our small, tiny world and its expectations.  God is inviting us to fit ourselves into the kind of world God is shaping and forming.  I am more and more aware that I practice fitting God into my neatly packaged world and avoid the sacrifices needed to fit into God's drama.  How goes it with you?