Who Is Our King?

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Pet. 2:9.

With the political season heating up towards the 2012 elections, there will be those who emerge on the landscape to whom many of us will ‘hitch our wagon’ in their rise to power. Their life will be spotlighted for a season and we will not be able to learn enough about them. Our appetites will be insatiable and our curiosity will be non-relenting. Some of us will even be the hands and feet of the person who is rising to power. So where is this same passion for the King who already reigns? Where is the intrigue for the One who sits on the throne? What are our hands and feet accomplishing in His rise to power on earth?

We already have a Ruler and unfortunately we also have a power that is trying to be a frontrunner hoping to tear down and destroy His mission. This hopeful frontrunner's name is Satan and he fights dirty with lies, deceit and evil. He is so crafty we do not even realize the ways we further his purpose and power. Our hands and feet are working to further the mission of one of these two powers on earth. We cannot serve both of these powers and must recognize the way God is calling us to be on mission with Him.

Through Him we are called to serve in a particular assignment from small to large depending upon His purposes. We are to be available and willing to be vessels in His rise to power on earth and be part of the Light that shines in the darkness. Satan knows that God will always reign and rule and no one will be able to dethrone Him. However, Satan also knows that we are the hands and feet of God in the earthly kingdom to accomplish God’s ultimate mission for the eternal kingdom.

If we are to reign with the King in the heavenly kingdom, we must first serve with the King in the earthly kingdom.