On Christ the King Sunday
Jesus stood alone
Deserted and beaten
before a magistrate of Rome.
His kingdom proclaimed:
No armories,
Or boundaries,
No petty rivalries,
Nothing for a worldly judge to fear.
His Truth stayed hidden.
The Kin-dom gift is for all to see.
And to this life of loving and forgiving
He gave up body and soul to make it so.
But none joined the fight, not even the disciples. No one answered His call.
For sacrificial living was death defying,
Seemed life denying.
So His Truth remained hidden.
Jesus spoke of an other worldly kin-dom.
To the judge just empty words,
Of a deluded Jewish prophet,
Hoping to impress Rome,
With talk of an invisible magic kingdom;
So with no army to suppress
The judge from his worldly throne
Mocked Him roundly.
And the people enamored by the idea of a King,
Angry and thirsty for an idol with power,
Ready to bow before a stone idol
Like Israelites of old had demanded,
Like the one many would crown King today.
All loudly insisted —
We have no King but Caesar !
Let him tell us what to do and who to hate.
Let him bring order and make
our dusty world safe
from all bandits and demons.
Still His Truth lay hidden.
So failing to be the King desired,
Jesus got crucified.
And in His dying hour
He spoke His truth once again to power.
To the beloved disciple at His grieving mother’s side: here is your mother; here is your son.
And on that Good Friday
By simple example
His Truth was revealed :
All of us from beginning and the end are Kin.
For only in a life giving Kin-dom
Will His kingdom come.
In Christ no tyranny reigns.
Christ heals with friendship and love,
Offering hope someday we will
Learn to live His lesson of
Love forgiven.
Then there will be nothing hidden.
*Thanks to Sarah Reynolds
THH
11/26/24
Thoughts Have Hands 