31 Meditations for Advent and Christmas
"The King Who is to come; O come let us adore Him."
4th Day: FURTHER CLAIMS OF OUR KING
"The King Who is to come; O come let us adore Him."
4th Day: FURTHER CLAIMS OF OUR KING
Jesus Christ is our King and Lord, and we
are His subjects; nay, we belong to Him as His
property and possession, because He has purchased
us for a great price. The price He has paid is not
gold or earthly treasure. It is nothing less than
His own precious blood, of which He shed the
last drop upon the Cross as the price of our redemption.
Each drop of that blood had a greater
value than all things that are in Heaven and on
earth: yet our King gave it all, and at the cost of
pain and anguish unspeakable, that we poor miserable
wretches might be His loyal servants, instead
of the slaves of the devil. Hence we belong entirely
to Him, absolute, complete submission is our duty
and our privilege.
Our King also has dominion over us as members of His mystical Body, the Church which He has founded, and which He has joined to Himself as His mystical Spouse. Inasmuch, then, as we belong to the Church, we claim Him as our Sovereign, and we also share in all the gifts and all the privileges that He has communicated to His holy Spouse. As the Church obeys Him, so ought we to do; as she can never be unfaithful to Him in the very smallest detail, so ought our devotion to enter into every action.
Our King also rules over us by our free choice. We chose Him at our Baptism by the voice of our Sponsors; we chose Him at our Confirmation by our own free will; we choose Him by each prayer we offer, each hymn we utter in His honor, each aspiration we make to Him to guide and help us, each time we cry out to Him, My Lord and My God! Once again, 0 Christ my Lord, I freely choose Thee as the King to rule my heart, my will, my intellect, my whole self.
Our King also has dominion over us as members of His mystical Body, the Church which He has founded, and which He has joined to Himself as His mystical Spouse. Inasmuch, then, as we belong to the Church, we claim Him as our Sovereign, and we also share in all the gifts and all the privileges that He has communicated to His holy Spouse. As the Church obeys Him, so ought we to do; as she can never be unfaithful to Him in the very smallest detail, so ought our devotion to enter into every action.
Our King also rules over us by our free choice. We chose Him at our Baptism by the voice of our Sponsors; we chose Him at our Confirmation by our own free will; we choose Him by each prayer we offer, each hymn we utter in His honor, each aspiration we make to Him to guide and help us, each time we cry out to Him, My Lord and My God! Once again, 0 Christ my Lord, I freely choose Thee as the King to rule my heart, my will, my intellect, my whole self.