On Jesus Christ, Our Lord & King!

By our faith we profess that Jesus Christ is indeed our Lord, and our King. He affirmed this from this Gospel narrative. Namely, the ff. verses. Pilate asked him,

(S3) Are you the King of the Jews?

(N) He answered him,

(J) You say so.

Then, also the ff.

Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

(N) Jesus said,

(J) I am; and "you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power," and "coming with the clouds of heaven."

But yet for our Lord and King, and for ourselves NO LORDLY, AND KINGLY RECOGNITION, and for us no similar respect and fairness WILL BE ACCORDED BY THIS WORLD. Jesus throughout this Palm Sunday narrative, notwithstanding a brief accolade given him upon his entry to Jerusalem, we witness to an unmistakable and evident rejection and abuse of him by the people and authorities of religion unto his dying on the Cross.

And so therefore with respect to our testimonial living of our life for Christ in this world, we should not expect to be spared the suffering imputed, and cast on us by this world. On the contrary, for as long as within the standards of what is rational and natural, where we are only trying our best to be safe, to be in good health, and to be protected & safeguarded about our basic needs, and most importantly where are only precisely wanting to keep our sanity of mind and spirit, specifically the spirit to persevere in our faith in God, who is loving and caring for his children that we are; nevertheless, we are to welcome and embrace all the un-avoidable NEGATIVES, bad luck, and unfairness and injustice that will come our way in life. The world will confuse us, and ridicule us calling us masochists, (weird people lovers of pain), and will look down upon us as stupid and wimpy. But it has to be so, for now; for like the Lord predicted to become like a lamb being brought unto its slaughter, we are going to have to be just like our Lord, become as lambs sacrificially bearing all the un-avoidable pains, anguish, sadness, and hardships as a way of our suffering together with Christ for the atonement of all our sins, and the sins of the world.

Precisely so do we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday right after the 1st week of Christ’s resurrection Sunday. We proclaim it is by being merciful and forgiving of people’s sinfulness, specifically, their sinful treatment of us that we could legitimately proclaim the power of Christ’s victory over death, Christ’s triumph over sins: eg. evil and all its negative manifestations we have lined up here. Unless we do so, we will not, like Jesus said, have a share in his resurrection glory. Let us make this message clear and well defined. Yes; we are to enjoy and be grateful to God’s blessings in life; but even much more so we are to willingly embrace Christ’s suffering and dying within us as the more essential and fundamental way of living our temporal and earthly life. Because it is only in this manner that we can, together with Jesus, get to receive both the later heavenly glory of victory as well as the Divine grace of a new human life of the spirit even while still living our natural life on earth. It goes without saying, thus; that as we live this life on earth, we are not to seek to live for the sake of beautiful women, we are not to seek to live for the sake of earthly power and honors, we are not to seek to live for material opulence and money luxury entitlements & enjoyments, we are not to seek even for permanent physical longevity and worldly perpetuity. No! We are just to be passing pilgrims on this life in order that we shall arrive to our proper and final destination of union with God in the New Heaven and the New Earth, beginning at our individual death until God’s End-times for all at Jesus Christ’s Second Coming on earth.