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