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“I just can’t wait to be king….”

A familiar tune. You may be singing it right now? 🙂 From the Lion King, where Simba longs for the day when no one will tell him what to do, HE will be doing the telling… the ordering around.

I was noticing today that I like to be the King. I like to be the one who is served. The one who sets the agenda. Who makes the calls. To whom all else are subject. No surprises, cause I call the shots.

And having kids, it’s easy to see that we are all that way right from the beginning! We are also staying with some friends who have two small children as well, so that truth has been reinforced even further as 5 kids under the age of 6 can be quite the demonstration of our desire to be in charge or to just simply get our way.

“No one saying do this

No one saying be there

No one saying stop that

No one saying see here

Free to run around all day

I’ll be free to do it my way”

Isn’t that what we all wanted as kids? I can see it in our oldest sons eyes. He is beginning to think, “Wow, there sure are a lot of rules, and boy would I like it much better if I could break everyone of them!”

Paul said that the law actually makes us want to sin. (Rom 7:7) When we know what we shouldn’t do, that’s EXACTLY what we wish we could do. And that’s on top of our natural propensity for self-indulgence. 🙂 We love to take care of ourselves, first and foremost.

But there’s another song that came to mind shortly after I was lamenting the fact that my life did not revolve around me…

“I’m not the King, I just sing… I’m just a fraction of a thing, yeah-heah

I am not anything… without the King of kings, yeah-heah…”

Not all that deep, but very true. 🙂 (Especially that “yeah-heah” part…)

I am not the King. God is. Best part is, I am his kid. So life is good, even though it doesn’t revolve around me.

🙂