Weekly Readings Reflections: Christ the King

Our readings for Christ the King Sunday are:

God chooses to lead and care for His people through other people, even though His leaders can sometimes disappoint Him by deceiving His children, taking advantage of them, or not following God's ways.
Who are some of God's leaders (alive or dead) that you look up to?
What was it about them that told you that they were godly leaders?
How do you think God goes about raising up such leaders?
Could you be one of those leaders?

Not knowing the first thing about herding, I feel a little sheepish commenting on this Psalm. But I would think that the well being of the sheep depends on being in the right place at the right time. The pasturage in any location is likely to be seasonal, not to mention the fact that the sheep need to move on after awhile because they consume all of the available pasturage. So they have to be on the move just about all of the time.
How has God changed things in your life? Maybe that was a change in location, change in relationships, change in job, moving to a new home, getting a degree, ...
If you had hung onto your present reality, clung to what you had, not dared to step forward into what was in front of you, what might have happened?
Did you know that was the call of God at the time?
How might you become more sensitive to that call of God in your life?

Our world seems full of tyrants large and small who try to wield power of their own without being subject to their right and proper authority.
Where is an area where you have, or have had a measure of authority over others?
Who did you work for in that capacity?
How did their values determine what you did in that role?
How did your discipleship to Jesus determine what you did in that role?
Did you ever have to reconcile your "official boss's" desires and directives with those of God Himself?

Mother Theresa is famous for seeing the face of Jesus in the outcast, the marginalized, the oppressed. But maybe God calls us to even more than that. Maybe He's looking to us to serve those in need simply because they are in need.
There are no end of folks in need. How do you avoid despairing of ever making a real difference in our world?
How do you protect yourself from burnout?
How do you find where it is that God is calling you?
How do you tell if you have stumbled into service that you are not called for? Or even that you are still trying to serve in some capacity that you are no longer called to?

Shalom!

Weekly Readings Reflections