No king but…

But they cried out, "Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" – John 19.15

I mentioned this just a couple of days ago. The people who had welcomed Jesus as king now said their only king was Caesar. When Pilate offered to release ‘their king’ they didn’t want it. ‘Our only king is Caesar.’ Maybe they were afraid of being complicit in Jesus’ treason. Maybe they were disappointed. Maybe it was combination of both. Either way they had rejected Jesus as their king.

Hopefully none of us go that far when it comes to Jesus as our king. Hopefully we would never say ‘I have no king but ‘whatever’.’ However that doesn’t mean that we don’t think act or believe as though Jesus was not our king.

How do we know what is king of our lives?

The king of our life is the thing or the person that sits on the throne of my heart. It is the person or thing that I bow down to. The king is who I obey.

We sing ‘King of my life I crown Thee now’ but do we really? Are we like the people of Jerusalem, but instead of saying ‘we have no king but Caesar’ we say ‘I have no king but me?’