Our Unshakable King: the Director and His Stage

Every day, millions repeat the words of Jesus: Your kingdom come, Your will be done. Looking at the trajectory of history, this might be the only prayer that is guaranteed to be answered. The ancient declaration in Exodus that the Lord shall reign for ever and ever, combined with the angelic promise in Luke that of His kingdom there shall be no end, confirm a grand narrative that cannot be derailed. God’s reign is not a mere possibility; it is an eternal reality.

However, this brings us to a painful contradiction. If God’s will is being done, how do we explain the daily turmoil we see in the news? To understand this, imagine God not as a distant ruler, but as a director, and history as a grand play. From the audience's perspective, the plot seems chaotic, even cruel. We struggle to understand the plot details, often feeling like characters lost in a dark second act wondering why the Director would allow such mayhem.

In ancient stories, kings sent armies to die for them, but in this divine play, the Director did the unthinkable. He wrote Himself into the script, and He did not cast Himself as the distant emperor watching from a golden box. Instead, He stepped onto the stage and wrote the worst role for Himself, a role of rejection, suffering, and a miserable death on a cross. This is the new exodus, where Jesus, the Eternal King, fights His war not with conventional weapons of destruction, but with the quiet, miraculous act of incarnation. He entered the turmoil of His own play to transform it from within.

By taking the role of the victim, the Director proved that the mayhem is not the result of His indifference, but the backdrop for His redemption. Because we know the Director endured the cross, we can trust Him with the script of our lives, even when the current scene is painful. We may not understand why certain plot twists happen today, but we have the assurance of how the play ends. The narrative of Scripture assures us that the curtain will not fall on tragedy, but on victory. We can fully trust that when the final scene concludes, it will not end in silence, but with global applause, a thunderous, unending ovation celebrating the King who suffered, conquered, and now reigns forever.