Only One King

We have no king but Caesar.
John 19:15

There stooped the King of kings and Lord of lords. Rejected by His own people, those He came to save. Rather than acknowledging Jesus as the King, they hitched their wagon to kings of the earth. This was not new for God's people. It goes back to Israel's first demand for a king. There, in 1 Samuel 8, we hear the cry of the people before the prophet Samuel, through whom the Lord had led His people: "...there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations." (v20) Moments earlier we heard Samuel grieving over Israel's demand for a king, at which the Lord clarified whom they reject: "...they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them." (v7)

What ancient Israel and their descendants, the Jews, reveal is simply the heart of humanity. Often we look to rulers of this world to be our savior, our redeemer, maybe even our friend. It is rather easy to get caught up in the fervor of the moment and, by our speech and our actions, we forget Whose we are, to which Kingdom we belong, and we forget our King.

I write these things, as you most likely have already inferred, because we as a nation near the edge of another presidential election. Regardless of how you might participate in this election, first and foremost keep in your mind and heart: you have but one King, Jesus Christ. Whatever transpires in our nation in the coming days and weeks, it does not impinge upon the King of heaven, for His kingdom, and His alone, has no end.

"I heard every creature," says John the Seer, "in heaven and on earth, and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, 'To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever.'" (Rev 5:13) Join in that heavenly chorus, by word and by deed, even while you live here on earth. Jesus reigns. Let all the earth rejoice.