Crown

 . . . but as for him, his crown will shine. 

 - From Psalm 132

We begin to focus more now, and the coming King. It is certain that we will have a king!

And isn't that really at the heart of all of human history? Human kings are horrible. Sure, occasionally, every couple hundred years or so, a kingdom might get lucky and have a good king. A lot of humans, maybe a majority of them, are willing to put up with ten lousy, evil kings; as long as the eleventh is a good one. 

The people protesting against the American system today, the empowered sliver of our society that has managed to attain dominance in Washington, in reality, wants a king. They want a single powerful person to gather all power to him or herself. They hope that this king wipes out the "mean" people in our communities . . . or anybody that may remind them of someone rich, or favored, or popular, when they were little. Perhaps they were bullied once. They never got over it and want retribution to this day. 

And so, a King! Yes! A King could do this for them! And once the people they don't like are out of the way, they plan to get back to talking about things like freedom and human dignity. 

We just . . . really want a king. 

Jesus is a Good One. He's eternally good. He's the got the power to fix things, and the humility to do it wisely and fairly. And he loves us all evenly. 

We enter Thanksgiving week. And we do so, with the King on our mind.