The Throne

DEVOTION

PROVERBS

THE THRONE

Prov 20:29

28 Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure.

NIV

Although all our scholars of old are in agreement this saying has to do with the character of a ruler and how mercy and truth will keep him in the seat of governing, there has to be something else here. How can this only be about the ruling class? The Hebrew words are more like kindness or mercy and truth or trustworthiness. However love certainly is compared or the reason for kindness and mercy. We certainly see that quality in the King of kings. We also see faithfulness or truth and trustworthiness in the King of kings. This would also be a good reason for him to be in the seat of power, or government of our lives. Who would remain a Christian if God did not demonstrate love and faithfulness toward us? Who would worship him if he were a cruel and hard task master, whipping and beating us, exacting some form of punishment every time we failed him? No, his seat, his throne is secure in our lives because of his love and faithfulness, because we can trust him. He shows us mercy on a daily basis. But his greatest demonstration of love, or mercy was when Jesus died on a cross taking our sin on himself. How more secure could this throne be? How could we ever want to overthrow him and take over the throne, governing our own lives? Can we love ourselves more than he does? Can we be truthful, or trustworthy to our own lives as much as he is? Although we acknowledge him as our Sovereign we still disobey and fail him. How much more would we fail ourselves, although we would not admit that? It is difficult to be true to ourselves, to follow faithfully our own set of rules or standards we establish to live by. We keep changing them to fit the occasion. But God does not change neither in character nor in his establishment of standards for us to live by. Yet even in our failure to comply one hundred percent and deserve the consequence, his love, his mercy, and his faithfulness covers our sin because we have relinquished the throne of our lives over to him.  We have unseated ourselves and allowed him to sit on the throne overseeing our lives. Let us never attempt to take it back. His throne is secure deep within our heart.