DAILY READINGS: Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Eccl. 2:12-3:15; Luke 6:20-49
We will not have this man to reign over us. Luke 19:14
This is the world’s attitude toward Christ. Doing His will is the farthest thing from their mind. One day they will have a man reign over them, but it will be the devil’s man, the beast. The believer who is faithful to
Christ will suffer the same reproach and rejection as their Saviour. He cannot enter the world’s politics or society except by distancing himself from Christ. We who love the Lord declare the opposite: “We will have
this Man to reign over us,” and we pray, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). —Carl Knott
King of kings forever and ever;
And Lord of lords, hallelujah, hallelujah!
And He shall reign forever and ever. —Georg Friedrich Händel