A new year

Well, it is official, now I have neglected the post. It has been over two months since a post. I have been busy puttin in work as they used to say. School is on hold right now for the season and I have been puttin in quality time with the family. I am trying to get refreshed for the new quarter.

The meditation for this post: Renewing our relations with the Lord of all lords, the Christ.

This year is a year to step it up especially with us in the US. It sounds funny to say step it up concerning a relationship, but it is true. This is the year where we need to take the things that we say seriously when we talk about our relations with Christ. In my church (a methodist church) we just went through a covenant renewal ceremony, where we declared that the liturgy we were doing was a serious matter and to be taken with that seriousness. It was most appropriate.

Accordingly, when we say things like King of kings and Lord of lords, what does that mean or what are we really trying to say? Are we trying to use different words to say that He is lord of our souls? Or do we really take that socio-political language seriously? What does it mean? And why is the secular object that is used to compare what the church does a "business model?" Do businesses have kings? Do they produce a "body" in the way that John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and the Apostle Paul use the word? I no longer understand how it happens that the biblical narrative says so much about taking care of the poor and the widow and the fatherless and so much about justice and righteous-ness that it gets relagated into the internal private realm. The relationship with Christ is not private. The biblical narrative does not call us out to be essentially individuals but to commune with each other. It calls us out from ourselves and makes us servants which is not a private thing. Everybody should know who the servant is when one walks into the room, everyone should know who takes the orders. Servants are not hidden people for the most part but the ones waiting for the next order. That is who we should be.

Our relations need to become most real. Our allegience to Christ should really out do all others. If he is the King of all kings then our relationship with that King should be like we are in a relationship with the most powerful person the cosmos has ever seen! The relationship should not be treated like God is my little genie or my little soda machine dispenser where I put in my 50 cents (a prayer) and the product (answer to the prayer) comes out, but that we really become servants wholly to God. Live or die, all for Christ.