Christ the King

 

Stealing Heaven

Most Royal Courts are made up of the rich and famous.

The powerful and influential

So as to assist the King in running the Kingdom.

It is the same even with our Democracy.

Presidents pick their cabinet and staff

according to their ability to help run the country.

Jesus however is different.

He came to call not the Righteous but sinners.

So He surrounded Himself with sinners and tax collectors.

Quite a motley crew.

Even as He was dying

He was surrounded with criminals

One on His left and one on His right.

And one of the thieves knew that his life was ending

and that the kingdom of this world was going to disappear

Being a good thief he decided for his final theft

to Steal Heaven.

That is why he is called the “The Good Thief!”

He was Good at what he did.

So he asked Jesus to remember Him when He comes into His Kingdom.

And since Jesus came to call sinners and tax collectors

He knew that the Good Thief would fit in well in His Kingdom

And He promised Him to have a place waiting for him that day in Paradise.

We are all thieves in a certain sense.

Stealing everything this world has to offer.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Only one day to find out that we have to give it all back.

As Death and the Devil come along only to steal all of it from us.

And if we call out to Jesus even with our last breath

Jesus will come along at the last second and steal us from the

Jaws of death and the clutches of the devil.

And grant us a place in Paradise

Along side all the other sinner, tax collectors and thieves

Who managed to get in

By the Grace of God.