December 7: King of Kings
“These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.”
Did you know that your eyes have never seen anything or anyone that God Himself did not intimately create? Hebrews 1:3 tells us that Jesus “is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.” Take a look around the room. Everything in your vision exists because he says so, and would collapse in moment if he ceased his active sustaining. All of reality hinges on the “word of his power”. Furthermore, it all exists for one reason: “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him” (Col. 1:16).
At Christmas time we tend to celebrate and emphasize the humble humanity of Jesus. That is good and right! We absolutely should do that. We should marvel that the Son of God took on flesh and entered into the chaos of human existence – not as God masquerading as man, but truly man! But we should never forget who Jesus truly is. He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Abraham Kuyper famously said: “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
Jesus is king of it all, and nothing in our world is outside of his kind kingly rule: not our houses, our cars, our relationships, our socks, or our wallets. He’s king of it all. And he’s king of you. This Christmas, don’t forget who it is being born in that stable. Don’t let the wondrous beauty of the nativity scene rob you of the even greater and glorious reality behind it. He’s no mere cooing baby boy. He is the sovereign Lord who cries out over all of creation: Mine! Will you bow your knee at his throne today?