Saturday morning (middle of the night, our time!), Britain’s King Charles III was crowned in an elaborate, centuries-old ceremony. I didn’t watch it live or on replay, but I found some of the anti-monarchy protests interesting. If you check out this report, you’ll see a common protest mantra:

NOT MY KING

I’m not a huge fan of Charles (few people are, apparently), and I think the monarchy will not be as good after his mother, Queen Elizabeth, about whom I’ve written before. That said, I find the sentiment, “Not my king,” amusing. I have news for the protestors, if you are a British subject, until the constitutional monarchy is done away with, Charles is your king.

He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ (Luke 19.12 – 14, ESV, emphasis mine)

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2.9 – 11, ESV)

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine! – Abraham Kuyper