The True King

 

As a child I read stories about kings and castles, about golden crowns and chariots and thrones, and about a Lion who was the king of the jungle.  

Now that childhood days are long past for me, I find that those kings and queens have lost their allure.  

But today let’s remember those childhood stories and try to imagine ourselves talking to a king.

On the far side of the forest there is a mountain on which a tall strong stone castle stands, diminishing the view of anything else.  The deep moat around it is designed to keep the likes of us out.  Everyone knows that only those with a special authority can cross the drawbridge into this most forbidding, beautiful realm.  Only a very special few can come before the throne of the king - the monarch of that kingdom.  Only a very few noblemen have the right to speak to that king. 

That is the tale from my childhood, but things are different for those of us who belong to the True King, who are citizens of the true kingdom.

THERE IS ONLY ONE

There is only one True Kingdom, and one totally unlimited ruler.  He is THE KING.  He is the Monarch of all things.  And He is The Designer, The Creator, and even more than that – the OWNER of everything!  

The Bible tells us about Him. 

"Have you not known?  Have you not heard?  The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.  He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”  Isaiah 40:28  (ESV)

and

"He stretches out the north over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.  He wraps up the waters in His clouds, and the cloud does not burst under them.  He obscures the face of the full moon and spreads His cloud over it.  He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness.  The pillars of heaven tremble and are amazed at His rebuke."  Job 26:7-12 (NASB)

Or

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)

As The Bible describes the real KING, he grows bigger, more powerful, more unreachable, and further from our understanding with each word we read.  This is the True King.

 I’m afraid that we don’t give Him the devotion, the respect and the obedience that we owe Him.  Maybe it’s because we don’t understand what it means that He is the KING!

But if I do understand, at least in a small way, His character and attributes. and if I see myself in comparison to Him, GOD - THE KING with that awesome power, wisdom, might and greatness, then I feel small, weak and unimportant.

BUT IT’S NOT THAT WAY AT ALL, 
I AM IMPORTANT 
I’M IMPORTANT TO THE ONE WITH ALL THAT POWER.

WE 
ARE IMPORTANT TO HIM  
BECAUSE WE ARE CHILDREN OF THE KING.

Children of the King have permission to cross the drawbridge, go through the castle gates, approach the throne, get up close and whisper in the King’s ear. 

Oh yes, He is still above all, above even his children, but as his children, we have a special place in his heart.  It is a place so special that He came to earth as a man, suffered and died on a cross to sign our adoption papers, making us members of His family.   

And that alone allows us the right to approach His throne and actually sit down there and talk to our Father - THE KING.