Give Thanks- Jesus Really is in Charge

Today (Sunday) is Christ the King Sunday (or Reign of Christ Sunday). It is a day we are to focus on the fact that Jesus is King and the implications of that truth. Even when we pray the Lord’s Prayer we are declaring Jesus as King (thy kingdom done, they will be done- on earth as it is in heaven). Jesus preached and declared that the “Kingdom of God” was at hand. God’s Kingdom broke into the world with Jesus and is still being revealed even now. We are citizens of the KOG as believers in Christ.

The more I study Jesus the more I see him not only as a King but a revolutionary. The Sermon on the Mount is our call to arms. It is a call for us to be in this kingdom and what it means to live in this kingdom. Read Matthew 5-7. It is a tough call but the call to real life.

Jesus is our King! We honestly can’t do it by ourselves. Under our own strength we fail but through the power of Christ all things become possible.

By saying this I don’t mean we sit back and let God do all the work and not worry! Life isn’t easy and we are ‘to take up our cross and follow him.’ Yet knowing we serve a risen King means we are on the ‘winning side.’ We can have conviction and strength because we are empowered by Christ.

Blessings,

Derik