Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered in a letter sent to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them." (2 Chronicles 2:11)
Do I connect ruling and loving?
Do I see myself as needing to be ruled?
Do I see that as a creature I must and will be ruled by something or someone?
Do I see that being loved by God is a matter of who or what He allows or causes to rule over me?
Do I see that because God loves me He has made the Lord Jesus Christ king over me?
"O Father, help me to embrace the truth that I am a creature (not the Creator). The Creator rules but the creatures must be ruled. Forgive me for fighting to rule rather than fighting to be ruled by You. Thank You for loving me by placing me under the rule of the Lord Jesus and making Him my King. Help me to gladly submit to Your rule over my life. Help to submit to Your sovereign will in praise and thanksgiving in all things and for all things. Help me to submit to Your written Word in trust and obedience more and more. Help me to submit to Your gift of righteousness in Your Son, Jesus Christ, day by day and moment by moment and sin by sin and need by need. Help me to be glad to be a creature who is ruled by the most loving King of all. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen."
