Word of the Week: Melek

Rob and I have landed back in Oshkosh and actually plan to be here for at least 3 weeks straight! WOAH! Now it's hit the road hard for the last 3 weeks of the semester -- for me that mainly means loving on and encouraging the students through finals, and helping them find some time to relax. It ALSO means, and I'm INCREDIBLY excited about this: getting through the applications for our Council of Student Ministers for next year, and meeting with each applicant for an interview and starting to put together our plans for next year's ministry. God has already done a LOT of work in the hearts of our students as far as preparing and exciting them into action, and the vision that they have to minister to their peers is awe inspiring! Pray for wisdom and guidance for us as TCF begins to draw alongside God for the 2009-2010 school year at UW-O. It's going to be awesome!

Part of that awesomeness is Sam Murray -- another Prospective Student Minister for next year. Check out her Word of the Week post below, and be blessed!


King, “Melek”
Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.” (Matthew 25:34). When we hear someone describing God, they may say; King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and Prince of Peace. Melek… King, describes the Lord as King of all Kings. He is all of those names, but how often do we sit back and really think about what those titles really mean.
While I was reading up on what this means, the song by David Crowder Band, “He is our King” kept coming into my mind. If we look at the lyrics, the song says, “He is our King, He is our Love, He is our God who’s come to bring us back to Him.” When we think of earthly kings, an earthly king is a lot of times worried about his government and how to gain wealth for him and his people. Our God already has all of the wealth and power in the world.
Recently we have had a lot of rain, but not any thunderstorms. For some of us, that may be a relief, but to me I look forward to the thunderstorms. I love hearing the thunder boom inside my heart and seeing the lightning light up a room. Psalm 97:4 says, ‘His lightning lights up the world, the earth sees and trembles.’ Our God is the King over all the earth, He produced that power, and we need not be afraid of the thunder, but of our great and powerful God.
Finally, those of us who have received the Lord’s gift and accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior need to learn to have God as King of our lives. Think of how we would be awestruck by a king of present day, we need to be even more in awe and immensely more willing to do as He wills. Live as though God is right here, governing over every move we make, because He is.