He IS the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
But He is also our Father
And I have this thought that God may be more interested in being our Father than He is in being a King.
Though we are servants, I think our more intimate role is one as daughters.
And though we deserve nothing, I think He is happy to bless us with abundance.
If we were to compare the Kingship of our Lord to the Kingship of a man over a country, I think the meaning behind these words is born. Does a king prefer to hear his very children call him king? Does he await their first word, hoping it will start with a k? Or does he yearn for the day his child will utter dada – the day when his child will acknowledge that, in a unique way, he has contributed to a portion of this child’s existence. Does he recognize that while he can be a leader to many that has little significance in considering that he has been a proponent in the creation of just a few? I say without hesitation that the latter holds tremendously more meaning than the former. And I think this to be true of our Lord too. I believe He longs for us to recognize Him as our Father more than as our King.
CS Lewis suggests…
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Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough? Well, Christians think He is going to land in force. We do not know when. But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely. I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman who waited until the allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side. God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade all right. But what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe, melting away like a dream, and something else, something it never entered your head to conceive comes crashing in. Something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left. For this time it will be God without disguise. Something so overwhelming, that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you could choose to lie down when it is become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing. It will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen. Whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment is our chance to choose the right side.
God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.
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There will remain no doubt that He is, and ever has been, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
Yes – our God will be victorious.
In a special way, I think those who have known Him as Father will be overwhelmed with irresistible love.
That as we acknowledge Him as our King – we will know too that, though servants, we are also His precious children.
And as we call on Him as the most powerful being, we will know that He has also shown us the most delicate of love.
And so with joy we will declare
That’s my King
and that’s my dad.
