We are meant to have a King!

Though every people group on this earth would and should desire the American freedom we enjoy in religion and choices, there is that one backdrop of kingly excellence, and even kingly demands that seems to leave us absolutely lacking in experience about the reverence the King-dom of God is built.

The Biblical story of Queen Esther can be put into a sterile, idealistic environment. It is about the worthy cause of saving the Jewish people. But behind this is the unrealized reality of a forced grouping of the most precious virgins scarfed UP and taken to be a harem for ONE KING for one night (for many of them)…undergoing a YEAR of treatments and training to give ONE King pleasure for that one night, tested if he liked the pleasure they gave him. He apparently had male boys he could choose from, too. Such an “ick” factor. Can we imagine the loss of dignity, especially for those who were severed from their fiances’ arms all for one king!! They could never go back to life as usual, because of the every slight chance the king might want them one more night on a whim of his indulgent pleasure-seeking. So, each worthy maiden would give every part of focus and go into his inner chamber and lose all their treasure.

Can I share something else about a king and his chambers? While the shudder looms above of the plight of Esther and her contemporaries with King Xerxes, the Lord brings to light Song of Solomon 1:4 and 2:4a. “The King (Jesus) brought me into His chambers…He brought me to His banqueting table.” In our busy and full minds, Jesus must initiate in our experience the way to the Secret Place spoken throughout the Bible as we are exhorted to ever draw near (see Heb 4, 6 and 10). This being “brought” is like the Shepherd bringing the lost sheep in from upon His shoulders. These passages say that He indeed does and will initiate bringing us there.

Yesterday, I read the stone cold words “they crucified Him” in Luke 23:33. I sense that for all of us He brings us to His chambers where we deal with the Crucified One. The depth there. While life may push us to occupy a smaller place, in there is our largeness to experience. May the depth of Christ in His Place engulf us so we can become true lights in the world.

When we consider the honor of the Real King’s chambers, how much more does this require of us to enter a Kingdom with a King and give every ounce of ourselves for the pleasure, not of an pleasure-seeking temporary king, but the King WHO GAVE HIMSELF for us!