Kingdom

Glory be to Jesus Christ! In our reading today, the disciples are excited to enter Jerusalem and take the Kingdom! Our Lord tells them that the Kingdom and the possession of it will be quite different than they imagine it through the telling of a parable. How frequently do we sell ourselves short, or suffer from a similar spiritual shortsightedness brothers and sisters? The disciples (and we can't blame them!) are interested in Jerusalem being conquered through the military campaign of the Messiah in their interpretation of the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophesy. Instead, Christ gives them another focus- working with…