Wednesday Christ Our King

Today’s message was written by guest pastor, Rev. Hunter Camp.

It is so easy for us to forget who our master is, and who our master is not. Our master is not found in a political party, the stock market, Hollywood, or any other cultural power or icon. We belong to Jesus Christ—and he is our master.  

Here’s the beautiful but challenging thing: Christ our king welcomes us to trade in the values of the kingdoms of this world, values like jealousy, greed, and fear of those who are different from us. Christ our King invites us to embrace his life-giving ways of peace, gentleness, simplicity, generosity, love, and hope. 

Our job, sisters and brothers, is to attune ourselves to the kingdom of Jesus and to its values. Our job is to imagine a different way of life that promotes the values of Jesus and his rule. Our job is to live as subjects of Christ and according to his values. And when we do live as a subject of Christ our King, we discover a freedom that no king of this world will ever know. We discover a hope that is found nowhere else.

Let us pray: Christ our King, may you help us to trust more fully in you that we might embrace your values and remember that we belong to you, body, mind, and soul. Help us to discover the hope that you bring to the world. Amen.