“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.  But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”  “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.  “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.

Matthew 19:14 – 15

Am I reading correctly?  Are these the descendants of King David, King Saul and one king after another?  Did not God provide a king for his people – a king from among his people?  That is what I read of Jewish history.

Then we hear the leaders of the Jews, the priests who are supposed to know these things, shout, “We have no king but Caesar.” 

Little did they know that this Jesus is God in the flesh.  He is not only King, but the Son of God!  All authority is in his hands.

I see this temptation pulling us today.  Nations come and go, politicians are but for a moment, power is elusive.  Yet this is what we fuss over.  Is it because we have no king but Caesar?  It looks like that.  So, this conversation the Jewish leaders had with the Roman leaders continues to today.  Is Jesus our king?  Or is nationalism or some other “ism” our king?

I appreciate our government and pray for our national leaders, as should all believers everywhere at all times. But reality halts me and reminds me of the fact that the followers of Jesus owe allegiance to Him alone.  Forbid that I should believe, for even a moment, that my king is Caesar!  My king is Jesus.