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Discipleship Focus: King
- King: This is the pinnacle of the Kingdom Triangle. When we look towards God’s position in the universe, we acknowledge that He is an omnipotent king. Authority comes from Him. Power comes through His authority. He is looking for representatives for His kingdom.
I spend a
significant amount of time in my blog post from three years ago talking about
how it is that a just God can work through the bloody and deceitful actions of
Jehu. Because on the surface it seems
like if God uses Jehu than either Jehu must be declared just or God must be
declared unjust. After all, how can a
just God work through an unjust servant, right?
Having
said that, I need to remember that I am an unjust servant of God. I am a sinner and deserving of
condemnation. I may receive
righteousness, but that is because of God’s grace, not because I deserve
it. So Immediately I can see that the
earlier assertion is a fallacy. The
truth is that God is in the habit of using sinners – unjust people – all the
time. The fact that God can work good
through the hands of sinners is amazing!
And it is no reason to call God unjust.
It is every reason to call God miraculous.
Which
leads me to a greater understanding of the Kingship of God today. God is so much the King of the universe that
not only can He use evil people to bring about His good, but He can do so and
still remain good while doing it! That
is how much God is King over the universe.
When we interact with the world around us, we take on the
characteristics of the world with which we interact. Sometimes that is a conscious decision and
sometimes it is an unconscious one. But
God does not. God does not take on the
characteristics of an unjust and evil world when He interacts with it. Rather, because He is king the world takes on
His characteristics whenever He is present.
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