Only One King Can Rule

Father may all of Your children cling to You today. May we not have the mentality that we can handle it…because we can’t. Our only hope is to hold tightly to Your hand, then, and only then, can we handle it. Help us to grasp more of Your love each day! Amen.

Luke 16:13 (<<click here to read the passage)

“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand devotedly by the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon [that is, your earthly possessions or anything else you trust in and rely on instead of God].” _AMP

Now, this is going back pretty far but one of the games we played in Kindergarten was King of the Mountain. We played on top of an embankment and the goal was to hold your position at the top, not allowing anyone else to pull you down or knock you off and replace you.

It may have been a game of my childhood but, Lord, it is something I must decide upon each day of my life, even now. Who, this day, will be the king of my life? There cannot be two kings. Only one king can rule. Will the king of my life be money or possessions or fame or status…or will it be You, Lord?

The world is constantly trying to usurp the throne. It entices me with all kinds of temptations. Pastor and author David Jeremiah said in his book Signs of Life,

“In case you haven’t noticed, the world frontloads its pleasures and back loads its pain. The Christian life sometimes front loads the pain, but it always back loads the pleasure. And I’d definitely rather be moving toward joy than moving away from it. That’s why I’ve chosen to live my life for the Lord and to walk in fellowship sweet.”

Lord, I choose You to be King of my mountain. Everything else will pass away, everything else will let me down, the promises of everything else will come to naught. But You?

[You] alone [are] my rock and my salvation,
My defense and my strong tower; I will not be shaken or disheartened.
Psalm 62:2 _AMP

Sept 21^st, 2020, Mon, 1:13 pm

(Content first posted Jan 31, 2018, on Morethanuseless.com.)