PILATE HAD POWER OVER PEOPLE BUT JESUS HAD INFLUENCE ON THEM

In today’s Solemnity of Christ the King, we need to distinguish between authority and influence on the one hand, and power and control on the other hand. Some people with the greatest moral authority are quite powerless, and the most influential has no need to control those they influence.

So it was with Jesus. Pilate had power over people but Jesus had influence on them. Jesus made his presence felt simply by the kind of person he was. His kingdom is eternal and his empire endless.

Let us learn from Christ’s kingship as opposed to subjugative nature of most earthly leaders. As we move out to tell the world that Christ is king, we too should ask ourselves a personal question: “Is Christ actually reigning in my life?”

Happy Christ the King Sunday and Congratulations for coming to the end of the liturgical Year!
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