Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Spring 2014 | Page 47

WHEATON readings
When the Kingdom Comes
What will the coming
kingdom be like,
and how should we live
while waiting for the
fulfillment of our hopes and
all God’s promises?
by President Philip G. Ryken ’88

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Adapted from
Kingdom, Come!
© 2013 by Philip
Graham Ryken.
Used by permission
of Crossway, a
publishing ministry
of Good News
Publishers,
Wheaton, IL 60187,
crossway.org.

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ometimes you wait so long for something
that you start to wonder if it will ever
happen. You pound on the bottom of
the bottle, but the ketchup insists on
defying the laws of gravity. Your favorite
team hasn’t won a championship in
more than a century, and the experts
think they’ll be lucky to win half their
games this season. You thought you had
a great interview, but it’s been weeks
since you heard anything; will you ever
get a job?
Then, all of a sudden, it happens! The
phone rings: they want you to start
next week. Your team squeaks into the
playoffs, gets hot in the postseason, and
wins it all. With one glorious “blurp,”
gravity triumphs and your burger gets
smothered in ketchup. Sometimes, after
all the waiting…final