Today, on this last Sunday in our Church year, we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King.  This feast gives us an opportunity to contemplate a most central and fundamental truth – that Jesus Christ is Universal King and Judge of all humanity.  

 While this feast makes a statement about Jesus’ identity as King, it also makes a statement about our  own identity – that we are God’s chosen and privileged children invited to be a part of His Kingdom and to share in His Life.  

Today we can stop and reflect on how blessed we are to have such a benevolent King, such a personal and loving God, a God who deserves a response of love and obedience from each of us.

And we are not only invited to take part in God’s Kingdom, we are called to help His Kingdom “break through” into our world.  And how do we do this?  We do this whenever we make God’s presence manifest.  We do this by doing what Jesus asks us to do, what Jesus Himself did – by living lives of love.   We do this by living lives of humility, kindness, forgiveness, and charity.   We do this by modeling ourselves after Christ – living selflessly, sacrificing ourselves for others, putting ourselves last.  

Jesus came to reveal God’s love and to initiate a kingdom of love right here on earth, a kingdom that will attain its definitive fullness at the end of time.   We, as Disciples of Christ, are privileged with the opportunity to help further God’s kingdom, an opportunity that, if embraced, allows each of us to achieve our own fullness as children of God.

Today is the last Sunday of the Year for us. This coming Sunday – the first Sunday of Advent – is the first day of our New Year.  So in some ways we can view this entire week as our New Year’s Eve.  And as is the custom on New Year’s Eve  we can make our New Year’s resolution – we can resolve to get closer to Jesus this year, to deepen our relationship with Him,  to ask Him to help us live the life we are called to as members of his Kingdom.  

Together, we can make this week a week of prayerful resolution.

 

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  1. Well said and heartening. Thank you.

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