An Inkling
There’s
nothing quite like a presidential campaign for making one happy to live in a
monarchy – the Kingdom of God!
The One
who reigns need not campaign. He seeks
us, not our votes. His promises, far
from pandering, come with a bracing call to lay down our lives for others, and
thereby to follow where he has already led.
The One
who reigns needs no polls to inform him before he declares his platform, which
comes from his heart, and intends goodness for us beyond what we know for
ourselves. Yet he welcomes us to speak
our hearts to him, and takes our heartfelt passions seriously as he acts, even
as he reshapes our passions along the way.
There’s
nothing quite like a presidential campaign for making one happy to live in a
monarchy! Even so, that Monarch has seen
fit to put us in a nation with presidential and other campaigns, and has called
us to choose as those he has chosen – no small challenge that!
May the
Monarch bless this would be democracy with more and more of those who are
subject first to him.
His, and
thus yours,
Keith
