God’s Kingdom today is a real exercise

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.