Enter guest writer Ken Rutherford…
Joy To The World
Joy to the World , the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.
Do I really believe the words of this familiar Christmas carol? It seems to be saying that joy comes when the Lord (Ruler, Master) comes, and people allow Him to be King. Doesn’t it seem more believable that joy comes when I get what I want?
Could it be that real joy comes when the “Lord” Jesus Christ gets what He wants in my life? It seems that the pursuit of happiness can be the strongest motivation in life. If we engage our pursuit based on wrong assumptions we will definitely miss the goal.
I recently met a man who was having major heart problems. In fact, his heart had stopped 3 or 4 times and had to be revived. He was told that he would need a pacemaker. He didn’t want to have a pacemaker because of certain wrong assumptions he had about pacemakers. He believed that a pacemaker would be limiting; that it would hold him back from really living. The reality was that he would die without a pacemaker, but be free to really live and enjoy life with one!
It is easy to get the idea that surrender of the control of my life to this Lord or King would be a hindrance; that it would be limiting. The truth is that without Christ as King in our lives we are dying.
This simple Christmas carol declares the truth that often gets overlooked. All of creation will “sing” when people allow Jesus the Creator to be King.
Posted under Transformation
This post was written by David E on December 21, 2009
