Biblefresh: it could change your world

When I was 17, I failed my O-Levels. I wasn’t anything impressive at all. Lots of my friends were going off to university and I wasn’t feeling very loved or excited by life.

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Then someone read this to me:

The Kingdom of God is within you.

It struck me like a thunderbolt.

Surely this cannot be true? But it is.

Immediately my view of myself and of other people changed profoundly. It gave me a passion to serve, inspire and encourage other people.

That led me into politics. And it remains a dominant theme and motivation for what I do.

This phrase doesn’t pay any recognition to whether you are unemployed or sitting in the House of Lords: that’s irrelevant.

My value does not come from where I sit and what I’ve done. My value comes from the Kingdom of God being within me.

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