The words of the living Jesus for Modern Times.
If you pray for what you refuse to do,
you have not prayed.
You keep asking me,
“When will the Kingdom of Heaven arrive?”
You ask it in churches.
You ask it in prayers.
You ask it while scrolling past suffering
and calling that faith.
But listen to me.
The Kingdom is not on its way.
It has been knocking for a long time.
Do not look to the sky.
Do not point to the future.
Do not wait for permission from heaven
to do what you already know is right.
I never told you to wait.
I told you to love.
I told you to heal.
I told you to forgive.
I told you to feed the hungry
and stand beside the broken.
And you said,
“Someday.”
You said,
“God will handle it.”
You said,
“After this life.”
But I tell you the truth:
Every time you delay love,
the Kingdom is delayed.
Every time you say,
“This isn’t my responsibility,”
you push heaven further away.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not built by angels.
It is built by people who stop passing the burden upward.
If a child is hungry
and you pray instead of feeding them,
you missed me.
If injustice thrives
and you wait for divine timing,
you misunderstood me.
If your neighbor is alone
and you say, “I’ll pray for you,”
but never sit down beside them,
you walked past the Kingdom.
I did not come to save you from the world.
I came to wake you to it.
I did not preach escape.
I preached responsibility.
I did not promise heaven later
so you could tolerate hell now.
Heaven is not promised to the faithful —
it is practiced by the brave.
The Kingdom is not a place you go when you die.
It is a way you live when you are awake.
It happens when you choose mercy
over being right.
When you choose courage
over comfort.
When you stop asking,
“What will God do about this?”
and start asking,
“What will we do — together?”
The Kingdom appears
when strangers become neighbors,
when enemies become human again,
when love becomes action instead of language.
You want a miracle?
Be one.
You want salvation?
Create it — with your hands, your voice, your life.
I am not returning to do what you refuse to do.
I am already here —
every time you choose love over fear.
The Kingdom of Heaven is among you.
Not later.
Not elsewhere.
Now.
And it is calling your name.
