What Kingdom?
When Pilate asks Jesus “Then you are a king?”, Pilate has in his mind one kind of being kings and one kingdom – the Roman Empire that had conquered other peoples and nations by military power and force. That was why Pilate could not understand Jesus.
Similarly, we might want to ask ourselves, “If Jesus is my king, then what kind of kingdom do I belong to? And in my life, what type of a kingdom that I project to others?”
In today’s preface (the prayer before the Holy), we proclaim the kingdom of Jesus being “an eternal and universal kingdom, a kingdom of truth and life, a kingdom of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love and peace.”
May we live each day as citizens of such a kingdom.
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