Column: We Are In Good Hands

If you use the Magnificat booklet then you may have run across th is quotation from Pope Benedict XVI about today's Solemnity of Christ the King. It's worth repeating here: 

"Jesus of Nazareth is so intrinsically king that the title 'King' has actually become his name. By calling ourselves Christians, we label ourselves as followers of the king ... God did not intend Israel to have a kingdom. The kingdom was a result of Israel's rebellion against God. The law was to be Israel's king, and, through the law, God himself. God yielded to Israel's obstinacy and so devised a new kind of kingship for them. The king is Jesus; in him God entered humanity and espoused it to himself. This is the usual form of the divine activity in relation to mankind ... [God] has many different ways of finding Man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways. The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines." 

God truly does "write straight on crooked lines." In his supreme goodness and benevolence, he works for good all things, even our sins. In the greatest example of this, the death of God's only Son, God accomplished the sacrifice for our salvation. Let us place our confidence in the most blessed King of kings, Jesus Christ, that "all things work for good for those who love God" (Romans 8:28).