After the movie ended I decided to tell my kids a bedtime story, it was one they had heard before in fact one they hear most every night. It was a story about a King stepping down from his throne and coming to live among the people in which he had invested so much in. He didn't come in a way that the people would recognize him though he came in the form of the King's son, royalty disguised as a commoner. People had talked about him doing this for years prior to the event taking place but the people grew tired of hearing the story and begin to live their lives as though there was no King and that there was no hope of ever being rescued by a King.
In the same way that people had been told about years before, the King came, but few accepted it as the truth. The King made no fuss though, he went to school, he practiced his faith, and he trained to work the same way everyone else did. As he lived, he experienced the same things that every one else experienced. In adulthood, he went to see a relative who baptized him in keeping with the story that had been told and the wishes of the King. Then there came a time when the King began to tell a select few that he was in fact the King, in all 12 followed him and believed that he was in fact the King. As the King went around and began to tell people that he was the King, there were many skeptics but the King welcomed them all, proving over and over again by healing the sick, aiding the poor, giving hope to the hopeless, and telling people the truth about their transgressions, showing that he was in fact the King. While all this was going on, there were others plotting behind his back attempting to dissuade the people from believing he was the King they had heard about for so long. Eventually, one of the King's 12 would turn against him handing him over to these Pharisees of sorts, who would push for the King's execution and eventually have their requests granted, mind you the King had never done anything wrong, he had not spoken an idle word, not falling prey to the traps that were set before him and he had not done one immoral thing in his entire life. They would take the King to be killed and after his death had him buried in a borrowed tomb. 3 days later when some ladies went to properly care for their King, they found that he was not there and would later have an encounter with the King, as if he had never left them. The King also showed himself to some of the others who believed him and handed over the power he had as King to them to go and continue his work he had started. The message they would be taking was a message of love, hope, and forgiveness. A message that would bring men to their knees and free slaves from bondage; it was the message the people so desperately longed to hear. It was a message of salvation provided by the only one that could provide it, as he had promised to do, The King!
Today, you can receive that same gift of love, hope, and forgiveness as this is the story of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is much more than a bedtime story, it is a story for the ages and story that brings salvation to every man, woman, and child. I wonder if today is the day you would receive your King?
