Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 1 Samuel 7-8.

The Israelites already had a king, a heavenly, eternal, sovereign, perfect king, but they wanted an earthly king like all the other nations. Samuel warned the people that an earthly king would take and take and take. He would take their sons and daughters along with their lands and animals and grain.

But to think about our heavenly, eternal king, Jesus, who gives and gives and gives, who gives us sons and daughters, who gives us land and animals and grain. And to think that Jesus gave us eternal life at the cost of His own life.

That’s my king! He is the All-knowing God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Ruler of Heaven and Earth, and He knows me by name. I am His, and He is mine.