No One Can Dethrone Him But Us!
Isaiah 46:8-9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
8[Earnestly] remember this, be ashamed and own yourselves guilty; bring it again to mind and lay it to heart, O you rebels! 9[Earnestly] remember the former things, [which I did] of old; for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like Me,
On Sunday morning we sang a song in praise and worship and one of the lines in the lyrics of the song was, “no one can dethrone Him, He reigns.” This morning as I prayed and meditated, I could hear we can dethrone God ; we have a choice whether He is the King that sits on the throne in our hearts and lives. It is true that He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, but the one who reigns over our lives and the one who sits on the throne of our hearts we have a choice in and we have to release the authority to them or Him. We are the ones that have the majority vote or the authority and power to overthrow the government that we set up in our lives.
How often have I myself seen my life become unfocused and my choices not God centered? It was because I had taken God off of His throne, by the way that I was living, thinking and deciding things for myself. I had placed my wants, needs and misguided thoughts to allow God to become my subject and I thought I should be the Queen. I was living in a posture where I didn’t think God should have the say, be able to set order in my life or to set the rules, boundaries and guidelines by which I had lived by, treated people by or even allowed my process of thought to operate in. Unfortunately, this is something that can happen subtly and we do not even realize many times that is happening. It is when we put down reading God’s word daily; stop talking to Him in prayer and walking closely with Him. It is when we stop worshipping Him and starts worshipping things, jobs, accomplishments and people that He gets dethroned. You see we can begin to walk closer with people than we do with God, we can respect the voice of people more than the one who gave us life. We can hear the voice that is our own mind louder than God’s voice, or we can get into a habit of not allow God place to speak to us, especially when it will challenge our way of doing things.
God is the King and He should be on the throne of each one of our hearts and lives, but the choice is ours as to who is running the show in our lives. We don’t always understand that if we move out of the way and learn our place we will stay out of harm’s way and live a more abundant life; we will reduce our stresses and increase our joys. If we can humble ourselves and allow God to be the preeminent factor in our lives we will see our lives not just come into line with God’s will, but we will see change in how we see our lives, how we view those in our lives and how we see the service that should be given to the Kingdom and others and even about what money is to us, what it is there for and how it should be used. By allowing God to be the King the pressure for making the decisions, providing and making things right in our lives comes off of us and is the responsibility of the one who is running the show. God’s leading is never wrong, His rulership is never unfair, nor would He ever ask us to do anything that will harm us. When God is in control it is for the betterment of our lives, it is to increase and grow us. Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, “11For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.12Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you. 13Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.” Don’t forget the King should know best, He is however the one who created us and all that we may have need of.
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