Appropriately for today my Advent word is King.
As the US House of Representatives gets ready to vote and formally impeach President Trump, we are reminded that we honor, and we worship and put our hope in God, the true king. Yes – God is our king! Not Trump, not any other person.
Today we watch the proceedings on TV continue and we see that our democratic system works. The House will vote, and will show that nobody is above the law in America. Division is deep but the law will win.
We remember during Advent that the wise men (educated scholars of their time) followed the star and brought gifts to the newborn baby Jesus, knowing that this baby was God’s own son. Animals knelt. Here was a child born of people in poverty, without a home, and on the run. He came to give the gift of love, and peace, and salvation. He never lied. He helped the sick and the outcasts. He set the example of how we should live.
So, when we hear someone brag about being above others, and hear him say that he could shoot someone in the middle of NYC and get away with it, and that he speaks mean about strangers every day, and thinks he can do whatever he wants…. who acts like he is a king…… he is NOT.
Christ is King. God is King.
Christmas Day is about the real king.
Marla’s Musings 