There is an ancient story about six (or so) blind men who tried to describe an elephant. Each touched a different part of the elephant's body and the descriptions were obviously different from each other. Each man tried to express what he felt by likening that part to something he had experienced before. When we seek to describe some thing or some experience that is new to us, we try to liken it to something we already know. It helps to have a frame of reference when we deal with that which is beyond our past experiences.
Have you noticed how often Jesus said something like, "The Kingdom of God is like......"? He did that because the Kingdom is beyond our experiences. And one complex description can't cover it all--it's far too grand and glorious. The Kingdom of God is not something we can intellectually describe and present for people to ponder and someday make a decision about. Those individual decisions are moral--not mental. Will we surrender to the King--personally, not just an abstract thought? Wise people have observed how Jesus would locate [pinpoint] a person's heart with a question, or with a challenge. Note how the rich young ruler went away sad [when Jesus said, "Sell what you have and give to the poor"] because he was very rich.
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