The King We Want
We all want a great king - and we have one in Jesus!
“The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!’” (John 12:12-13).
There is an old ache in our hearts for a great king. One fierce with his enemies yet gentle with his own. The bravery and courage of a great warrior but with fatherly affection. Exalted above all but with an open throne room to which we can come with our needs. More glorious than us, of course, yet one of us. We want to do more than behold him. We want to be with him. We want more than his greatness, we want to be inside it. We want protection from all that threatens. We want grandeur, yes, but also humility. We want a lion and a lamb in the same person. The problem is that no king ever lived up to that standard except Jesus. He meets all the requirements. Jesus holds within himself all those excellencies we most desire yet cannot seem to be held in any one person. That old ache for a glorious and all- sufficient king deep inside of us is fully satisfied in him and in him alone. He’s the king we most deeply want, and he’s the king we most wonderfully have.
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