Not everyone who calls out to me, “Lord! Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  Only those who actually do the will of my father in heaven will enter. Matthew 7:21

Kings and queens, with their colorful pageantry and coronation regalia, are still fascinating to us in this post-modern age.

There’s one King who rules a Kingdom today that’s both “already on earth” and “yet to come.” On the robe of this King and on his thigh “he has this name written: King of kings and Lord of lords” (Revelation 19:16 NIV). He is the “blessed and only Sovereign” (1 Timothy 6:15 ESV). This King is Jesus.

Many people’s prayers are filled with requests that King Jesus help things go well in their own, personal little kingdoms here on earth. Of people like this, Jesus said: “Not everyone who calls out to me, “Lord! Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  Only those who actually do the will of my father in heaven will enter” (Matthew 7:21).

What does submission to the will of King Jesus look like?  Letting Him rule in me means that I live according to His Kingdom laws.  But so much more than religious dos and don’ts, doing the will of King Jesus means that I live a “one another life.”

“A new commandment I give to you: Love one other as I have loved you,” Jesus said (John 13:34). I invite His rule over my life when I love, when I bear with another, accept, care for, serve, and comfort another (Colossians 3:13, Romans 15:7, 1 Corinthians 12:25, Galatians 5:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:13). There are more than 50 scriptures in the Bible that lay out for us what one another living looks like![1]

King Jesus went first in loving us. He went first in living the one another life by giving Himself for us. May His Kingdom come, His will be done.

[1] The “One Another” Passages. mmlearn.org/hubfs/docs/OneAnotherPassages.pdf.