He knows they will find God, who cares for the sparrows and counts the number of hairs on our head, at work in the world. They will not need the usual sources of security because the experience of inner fire is available to them. It is available to them even when they are not in his company. In sending them out, Jesus reminds the disciples that the Kingdom is constantly in the midst of human life. The amazing truth is that the ordinary is the tool of the Divine.
Eternity is now ongoing.
The Kingdom can only be entered now and by none other than us. As a treat, he bought ringside tickets, right in the center two rows back. The children liked the clowns and the tigers. Most of the other acts were too far away, too small to seem especially remarkable to a young child's eyes. Then the elephants came out, with their feathered plumes and sequined riders.