O King of Nations
Zechariah 9:9-10; 1 Peter 2:4-6
December 22
O King of nations, the ruler they long for, the cornerstone
uniting all people: Come and save us
all, whom you formed out of clay.
Jesus is both King and Cornerstone. As King he governs by His gracious reign of
forgiveness and peace as King of kings.
As Cornerstone He sets all the angles square and unites His church
together as one.
He is the potter, we are the clay. He is the King, we are His subjects. He is the Cornerstone, we are living stones
built into a temple for His Name. We
want this, and then again, we don¹t want it.
The sinful nature resents the potter, refuses the king, resists the
cornerstone. Sin is the overthrow of
God¹s reign, the attempt to be a god in place of God. It is the rebellion of the clay against the
potter who shaped it. It is our attempt
to determine the lines of our future and destiny, to be our own cornerstone.
The outcome is chaos and death. A kingdom in which everyone is king is not a
kingdom at all. It is anarchy. A building in which every stone is the
cornerstone is a pile of rock. Individualism
ends in isolation. It is death to
family, to community. It was not good
that man was alone. God put us into
community. Sin erects walls, both
visible and invisible, barriers to community.
We define the boundaries of our own little kingdoms and vow to defend
them to the death.
Christ has come as King and Cornerstone. His coming was without the trappings of
royalty. A virgin mother. A manger crib. He rode atop a donkey to his death. He wore the purple robes of royalty only as
He was mocked. His crown was made of
thorns. His throne was a cross. He is a beggar king in a kingdom of beggars.
The crucified King is the King of kings. The rejected stone is the cornerstone.
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