It has been several decades since Pastor John Lloyd Ogilvie wrote his book about the parables of Jesus titled, The Autobiography of God. As Ogilvie pointed out, this “autobiography” – this self-writing – is exactly what the parables of Jesus are.[1] They are the description of the kingdom of God by God’s own self.” Jesus did not write them down as an author would; he told them to small groups, to angry crowds, to the masses, to individuals, and most often, to his disciples. He painted word-pictures about what life would be like on the other side. And all of these centuries later, Christians young and old have continued to gain glimpses of heaven by reading and telling the stories Jesus told.

We learn from God’s autobiography that the kingdom of heaven is not at all like the kingdom of the w…