The King of Glory (2)

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong …” Psalm 24v7-8 (KJV)

Who is this King of glory? He is the all-glorious God, the Possessor of heaven and earth (Genesis 14v19), the One who makes kings, and who rules in the affairs of men. He is the One who promotes, the One who puts one up and the other down (Psalm 75v7). There was once a king – Nebuchadnezzar – who thought that all he had was because of who he was, but the Almighty God put him quickly in his place. We can say he was the historical version of the people who proclaim that they are “self-made men”. At the end of the day, he declared that the God indeed was God. Daniel 4v29-35 (KJV) says “At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation: And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?” Beloved, let us never fail to give the King of glory all the glory for every achievement of our lives.

Prayer

Father we thank You for You are good. We repent of every way we have been proud or ascribed any glory to ourselves and we thank You for we know that every blessing that we have comes from You. Blessed be Your holy name forevermore in Jesus name, amen.