WONDERFUL POST THIS WEEK AT THE GOSPEL COALITION casts the royal wedding in a new light and more godly perspective. Longing and Looking for a Good King says what we all secretly long for is a good king to reign over us and the world.Heaven knows we've enough bad and controversial 'kings' in our day. We certainly didn't have the good king image in Prince Charles or even the ever-jovial queen consort, Prince Phillip. We wouldn't have it in randy Prince Harry.
No, but Prince William and his beautiful, graceful Princess Katherine fit our hopes, dreams and projections to a T! They bring out our collective longings for a benevolent king who'll rule kindly and fairly over all the earth. From the piece:
It’s not enough to have a king with the proper line of succession, or with the legal right to rule; people want a good king. They want a king with some dignity, who doesn’t bare a checkered past of divorce and sex scandals. And it’s not just the king’s subjects who care. Hundreds of millions are watching.
Of course in reality no earthly king can completely fulfill our soul's longings. King Saul, the first king of Israel, failed miserably. And even the apple of God's eye, King David had many trials, temptations and heartbreaks. But he knew how to humbly repent and stay in fellowship with God in ups as well as downs. And David ruled over a prosperous and favored kingdom.
And so The Royal Wedding this week, brings up our deepest longings for a Good King and Utopian world that will never be fulfilled this side of heaven and Christ's Second Advent one day.
Till then, we must live with imperfection and our intense longings which are indicative of the deeper reality embedded in each of our human souls for a good king.
I'm Welch for the most part. My sisters (5) say that I remind them of Dylan Thomas which is not to me a compliment. He wrote poorly and was a drunk. Yes, it does and should worry me that they think that, but I think they're trying to be up to date (After 30 years?) complimentary.
ReplyDeleteI, as almost all of the men in my family, have been named Edward in honor of the king that decided to no longer kill Welch as wild boar. Sport isn't what it once was.
All this is a cheap way of telling my story to compliment William. He seems to be rid of the virus called Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
I still look over my shoulder and not just while hunting. It's genetic.
The ax never falls too far from the neck of the tree.
Despite my desire to remain nothing like a male interior designer I found Kate absolutely scrumptious.
I thought her veil proper and stylish.
Thanks for your wonderful comment and small peek into your past....always enjoy learning more about you---like you have 5 sisters....don't you know they love to gang up on and devil a brother like you!? What is your birth order, mRed? Oldest? Middle?
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