People are Not Easy to Love no. 34
“They shouted, ‘Take him away! Take him away! Put him to death on the stake!’ Pilate said to them, ‘You want me to execute your king on a stake?’ The head cohanim answered, ‘We have no king but the Emperor’” (Yochanan (Jhn) 19:15). The controversial thing about Jesus being our king was that Caesar was not. BUT how often is Caesar and Rome still the politics and allegiance with which the church concerns itself. People are not easy to love because they follow their Emperor and not the King.
No King But Christ. It is easy to say. A slogan that should be important. BUT how often do I enter churches that are more occupied with Babylonian or Roman allegiance and not His Kingdom allegiance. He is our King so we should be interested in His Kingdom. BUT folks are consistently worried about all types of things that should not concern us if Jesus is our king.
We should not worry or fear what is going on in Babylon or Rome as long as we are assured in His Kingdom and His sovereignty. So, I pledge my allegiance not to a flag BUT Jesus. I pray to God and not to a sky cloth. I support His Kingship and not the division of politics and partisanship. I take His Kingdom seriously because His Kingdom is the only answer to all the problems in Babylon and Rome.
We do have a problem with politics and government in this world. And that problem is that we don’t take our King more seriously than the Emperors of the world. We should treasure His Kingdom like He describes it, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. A man found it, hid it again, then in great joy went and sold everything he owned, and bought that field” (Mattityahu (Mat) 13:44). Too often we no longer, “‘. . . love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength’. This is the greatest and most important mitzvah . And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot” (Mattityahu (Mat) 22:37-40). We need daily to deny our self, pick up our cross, and follow Him, not a nation, a president, a politician, or a party.
Grace and Shalom to your home.
I love you. I forgive you. Have a blessed and abundant day!
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