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And every common bush afire with God;
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

King the King

Χριστός ο βασιλιάς
Christ the King (Mark 15:32)

King the King
Doubled crowned

what does it mean
to believe in King the King?

Is Christ our King or the King
             
To go, perhaps
One step further

What does it mean to think of God
as ruler?

Is God our Ruler, or the Ruler?
Is God our God or the God?

Do we own God, or does God belong to everyone?
Is God for everyone, or just for “us?”

To put it yet another way
Are people entitled to lay claim to God,
or do we believe God lays claim to people?

This is an important distinction
for how we think about God matters
a lot

If God is “our God”
On our side (exclusively)

For us (and not them)

If we are the entitled and privileged
(while others are not)

what happens to faith?

It appears that all too frequently our version of the Sacred
Is of a God who is for some, and not others
“God bless America”

But forget the rest of the world

Thus, all too often the God we present becomes a bully
and we the sidekicks who hang around
participating in second hand bullying

Damning (in the name of God)
Cursing
Judging
Hating
Those we do not agree with
Those we fear
Those who look and sound different

After all, God belongs to us
More than we belong to God

But we lose so much
love
compassion
generosity (

I prefer to think of God
(as portrayed so beautifully by King the King (Jesus)
As the accepting compassionate one
who is over all
and for all

and I suspect we do not have unique privileges
just the special privileges that come with being the children of God

and I suspect we are all children of the King
that the world is littered with princes and princesses
heirs of the kingdom

and that this journey we call life
is all about all of us
working together
sometimes uneasily (after all we are siblings)
to get to the kingdom of love
the place where Sacred rules

together

So God bless us
every one

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