Christ the King Reflection: Freed From Our Addiction To Glory
Franciscan Reflections From The Hermitage – Christ The King Year A – Freed From Our Addiction To Glory – (Matthew 25: 31-46)
The extravagant titles and the high hats of those who stand on the podium of authority and law… but have forgotten the author of their power.
Perhaps too we flirt with the kingdom of this world. Perhaps we have forgotten the revelation of God… in God’s creation and in Holy Scripture; “I Am that I Am and… I Am not like you”.
Our intoxication and our addiction to the glory of the kings of this world have lasted millennia. Perhaps we have also invested our hope, our spirituality, and our religion in this worldly glory… along with the weapons of destruction.
Here in the Empire of this world, we will find every Word of revelation, every Word of God… perverted for personal glory and the rot of subterfuge and control.
Here we find the God of Love and healing replaced by an angry and malevolent sky king who gives his children poison for bread and eternal damnation as medicine.
800 years before the Christ event, the prophets of God warned against our choice of worldly kingship and glory. When we place our hope in our own power and achievements… the illusions of our mind, then that hope will surely fade like the mist before the morning sun.
Love always respects and obeys the will of the other… this is the vulnerability of Love. When we turn away from this great sovereign Love, mangling and mashing Love to our desires, and our demands… our choice is respected. But Love is always there waiting for us to return, to receive and to give. Let us hurry back from the brink of the dark abyss.
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