A sudden news and its impact on my mind
As I checked my Yahoo news today, many news articles were reporting about the death of Queen Elizabeth. A well-respected person not just for all the people of the United Kingdom, but also for many people of the commonwealth and all the people living on earth as well. Although I don't know her personally, but I know she was a great woman in her lifetime for all the things she has done to the United Kingdom. She has been a queen for 70 years, longer than any queen from her past. She has experienced all the difficulties and trials of the royal family and remains a very calm image in the public at all times. Although she has all the riches and glory during her realm as a queen, she has her beginning and an end as well. What does her death tells us? A passage from the Bible immediately pops up in my mind, and it is Psalm 90:10, which says, "The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span [c] is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away."
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span [c] is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away."
When the queen finished her last breath on earth, she couldn't bring anything with her. Even I believe they will surely remember her name in human history. Her pass away also reminded me of one thing: who is the real king in this universe? Jesus is the king of glory and the ultimate authority of our life.
The King of suffering
Unlike the Queen Elizabeth II, who will always travel in a royal and prestige class of manner, Our Lord Jesus didn't live a life like that on earth. He was only born in a manger and also as a child of a carpenter, Joseph. He needed to escape from the death threat of Herod and went to Egypt with his parents. Jesus only rode on a donkey when he entered Jerusalem. He once told a teacher of the law who shown his interest in following Jesus that he doesn't even have a place to lay his head (Matthew 8:20). When Jesus died, he didn't die in a palace as what a king or a queen should be. They crucified him on the cross and were full of shame according to human standard. No glory, no respect, nothing to be honored about, but full of pain and sadness if we would just look at how he died on the cross. He was the king of suffering, and even one criminal who needed to crucify with Jesus also laugh at him in his dying process. (Luke 23:39). As the only Son of God, why did he have to go through all this, and why did he have to die like this? It is something that Christian can always answer but will always forget to meditate in a deeper way since the church has always talked about the answer already.
The king of glory
What is the answer, then? The answer being that Jesus has gone through all this and died in a painful way, just because he wanted to save us from eternal death. He didn't have to go through all this, but it was just out of God's love and Jesus' own submission and obedient to the Father. It was 100% out of his love for our human souls and didn't want to see any human to go to hell without hope, so he lived a life like that and die like that as well. It is out of his own choice. Unlike the queen who couldn't choose where she was born, Jesus could choose at the very beginning. He could choose not to become a human, but he chose as the Word became flesh (John 1:14), anyway. He lived a life to fulfill all the prophecy have said about him in the Old Testament. And the best part being that He just didn't die for us, he roused on the third day for us as well. He has already conquered death for us and he is living in the glory with the Father once again and someday he will come back in a glorious way to take his people with him forever. Yes. That's our Jesus, our king of glory. As a hymn saying that, "Oh, what a wonderful day it will be. Jesus is coming again!" Are you longing for that day? I surely do!
How should we then live?
For most of the British, the queen has already fulfilled her duty and responsibility as a queen supposed to. So does our king of glory, Jesus, who has already done what he could to finish the salvation plan as the Father had expected. What about you and I as " a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession," as the first part of Peter 2:9 stated? I pray I can surely "proclaim the excellencies of him who called me out of darkness into his marvelous light." As the last part of this Bible verse stated. I pray I can uplift the name of Jesus while I am still on earth and bring more people out of the darkness and enter the glorious kingdom like I did. How about you? Will you join this glorious team and serve the king of glory for the rest of your life? I pray you do. To God be the glory. Amen.
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