Where is Your Kingdom?

Jesus said ” My Kingdom is not of this world” John 18:36  Now what is the importance of this passage, well for me it says it all our Kingdom is not here on earth, it is in heaven with God our eternal life is where our Kingdom lies.

I just finished the two seasons of the Netflix show called Kingdom with my dad; it is set in Korea’s Joseon period.

If you were to ask me how I would describe what this show is about, I would have to say it is all about the master-slave dynamic. Just like Bishop Robert Barron said in his homily on Holy Thursday, Jesus switched that mentality completely by washing his disciples’ feet. But how can I even relate this to this show, well you will have to keep reading.

Here is a little summary. It is about the fall of a royal family and their country due to the nobles and the King’s right-hand people that are around him wanting to take over the throne. The King falls ill with an odd virus that turns him into a monster. Meanwhile, the rest of the country lives in poverty, stricken by illness, and are starving, but due to eating a particular kind of meat, they become monsters.

I see these zombies more of a physical metaphor for the consequences of the evil that is controlling the empire. This is a result of their selfishness and want of nothing more but power to the point of turning the King into one and wanting to kill the crowned prince.

This is all about hunger; we as humans have so much hunger for the big things in life. We are hungry for success, and in those moments, there are times that the hunger is the sickness that seeps in our core throughout every part of our being; we feed off of other’s faults and flaws without even looking at our own. We believe that we are the masters and that others should know their place, but in this series, you see a perfect example of the master-slave mentality transform. The Prince I would say in the beginning his purpose was to hail as ruler, but once all the chaos started to occur, you find him to be a Christ-like figure in the sense that he was not too high to be amongst the lowly and the servants and fighting along with side them. He would have rather died then to witness the death of so many others. He truly knew how important it was to be in the dirt with the rest of his people.

How many times are we willing to go down in the dirt with others just for them to know that they don’t have to be afraid alone.

Christ is the King of all Kings that died for His people willing for our sins to be taken away with Him in His death, for He knew that we are weak and will always be hungry.

So please, I want to know Where is your Kingdom?