an upside-down kingdom?

something that i've heard often is that the Kingdom of God is an upside-down Kingdom: His politics favors the weak and undesireable over the strong and beautiful, advocates a policy of "consider others above yourself", and holds the least as the greatest and the greatest as the least. His economy rebukes us when we try to save up for a safe and comfortable retirement, demands that we give away money we took pains in earning to "those bums who don't do anything", and calls us to live on a day-by-day basis, taking nothing more than our daily bread, not knowing whether we'll have any tomorrow or the day after.

the Kingdom of God is an upside-down Kingdom.

or is it?

isn't God's Kingdom really the one that's rightside-up?
doesn't God's politics and economy create a world in which "No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but shared everything they had", in which there are "no needy persons among them" (Acts 4:34), in which poverty and hunger cease to exist? doesn't His politics and economy create a world in which we consider one another as family and not as an Other, and love them, not for what they do or how useful they are to us, but for who they are? a world in which i am considered as a sister or brother and not as an Other and loved, not for what i do or how useful i am to them but for who i am? a world in which there is no insecurity, no fear of judgment or condemnation, no need to prove myself, no want that haunts me? a world in which we are all inter- (not in-) dependent and receive all we could ever desire from the very Source of "every good and perfect gift" (James 1:17)?

...a world characterized by abundance, love, and freedom?
a world filled with laughter, music, dancing, and Jubilee?

we spend our life on this earth walking, not on our legs, but on our hands. and we wonder - if God is so good, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?