The Kingdom of God is Within You

Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

With simplicity, the Savior states what has become better known and understood with time. Everything that manifests in the world starts within us or within someone, every action was a thought first, every structure was an idea first, every destruction was an impulse first, and so it is with the Kingdom which they surrounding him sought.

The power of an idea has never been more profound than when the Savior spoke of his Kingdom being one that must first take root in the heart before it can ever become a reality. All around us in the world we can see the power of ideas manifesting reality in ever increasing diversity and profundity.  We see thoughts combined in new and creative ways resulting in innovations the world could never have imagined in bygone centuries. This then, is one way that we can see that once an idea takes root in the heart, it cannot help but become manifest in reality.

This is a law of heaven and one spoken of in the Secret as the Law of Attraction, we truly can manifest what we focus our attention on, but most ideas don't take hold because there is not always any degree of heartfelt emotion behind them.  Mind you this can be strong good or bad emotion, but either way, emotion can and usually does become the driving force of an idea becoming a manifest reality.

Proverbs 23: 7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

This goes doubly for the person we are becoming each day.  Our thoughts guide our actions and our actions develop into habits; our habits form our character, and our character forges our destiny.  All this from the power of thought.  We must become more conscious of our thoughts and which ones we allow to become emotionally charged, for it is certainly a fact that we do have a high degree of control over which thoughts develop into actions and ultimately forge our character.