Epiphany

We find ourselves in the season of epiphany, the celebration of the declaration of a new King, beginning with the wise men.

When word of the new King's birth got to Herod (the reigning king), he was so threatened by the idea that he had all 2 year old male babies in the region to be killed.

Herod was right to feel threatened. Not because this new King would grow up and raise an army and take the kingdom by force, but because the new Kingdom being declared was God's Kingdom, a threat to the fabric of society and the status quo.

Those who would trade in violence, those who would store as others starve, those who would value power over principle and happiness over holiness, those kings of earth are put on notice by the birth of a new King.

Your time has come. A new Kingdom is coming. One with laws that include love of enemies and turning the other cheek. One that speaks shalom into emptiness, and brokenness, and loneliness, and helplessness, and hopelessness.

A new King has come. May His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

And may His presence be a threat to anything else that we might pledge allegiance to.