"King Breaker"

"Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him." (Psalms 72:11) There really is not much left to say after that, because how can you give away what is not yours to begin with? It is really all about a heart of worship; if I truly love the Lord, then I will worship Him with my life; that's pretty much the just of what Paul was trying to say, "Prove it with actions!" Oddly enough, it is the story of what love is in a nutshell. Love is not saying, love is doing! John 3:16 does not speak of God saying this or that, it speaks of God doing something amazing because He loves us; something that required Him to give His all for all of us! God took the first step, He always does! I think that we tend to forget that; some of us might have never even realized it from the start; but most of us, at some time or another, forget who called out to who. It was God that called out to us, it was God that first loved us, it was God that took the first step to save us from the eternal fires of hell. I must say, this is hard to express without getting all emotional, and wanting to go crawl under a rock, but we sure can be very unthankful and unloving towards God; after all that He has done for us, you would think that we could show a little more gratitude and respect. Not that it matters, but people who say that they do not believe in God, really can not prove what they claim; not that they could, but they cannot truthfully and honestly say that there is no hint of belief in God present within their heart. Paul gives us this insight with his letter to Rome, as he explains in his introduction that everyone knows of God in one way or another, it is understood by His creation from the very beginning (Romans 1:18-20). The way that Paul explains it, there will be no excuse for not knowing God, because everyone has the same knowledge of His existence, it's more about what they do with the knowledge they have been given; do they retain that knowledge, or do they disregard it and become vain in their hearts and minds; by which, they are made to be fools and totally lost in wickedness (Romans 1:21-32). Basically it all comes down to our response to what we know of God. It is pretty obvious that He is our Maker, because He has written His name upon our hearts; not just those who are His children, as we can interpret His name, but everyone has God's stamped upon their hearts, as we are all living souls, created in His likeness. I think that it is this fact, the fact that we have an eternal soul, that makes this verse so real and awakening. The way that Matthew Henry puts this, he says, "Yea, all kings shall, sooner or later, fall down before him, either to do their duty to him or to receive their doom from him. They shall fall before him, either as his willing subjects or as his conquered captives, as supplicants for his mercy or expectants of his judgment." Respond to the proof of His love, otherwise you will respond to the proof of His judgment; your choice... "For God loved the world so much that He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him. There is no judgment against anyone who believes in Him. But anyone who does not believe in Him has already been judged for not believing in God's One and Only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God's light came into the world, but people loved darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants." (John 3:16-21) NLT