Kiss the Son!

What striking language. What a vivid picture. There upon the holy hill of Zion sits the Son of God, the mighty King of kings. The Father has given unto the Son all the nations and peoples of the earth to serve him. The nations hate the Son. The people revile the Son. But they serve the Son all the same, in spite of themselves. In the hand of the Son is a rod of iron, instrument of vengeance and destruction. With his rod of iron, the Son smashes the heathen nations of the earth into pieces like a potter’s vessel. Stretching out before the Son is a great line of the mighty ones of the earth. Kings of their nations. Rulers of their communities. Lords of their churches. Tyrants of their homes. And now the everlasting Father will speak to all these mighty ones as they stand before his Son.

Kiss the Son!

What does it mean, this call to kiss the Son? It means this: Repent! It means this: Turn! It means this: Bow your proud neck and your stiff knee before the Son. Show him the sign of honor, respect, fealty, service, loyalty, and subjection. Before the kings of the earth, a kiss. Before the King of all kings, a broken heart. 

Kiss the Son!

The wickedness of your rebellion is monstrous. You raged against God and his truth. In his gospel you found only God and never man, and it galled you. In his salvation you found only God’s work and never man’s work, and you hated him for it. Imagining a vain thing, you took counsel against Jehovah and his anointed. You plotted ways to break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from you. You cast away Jehovah’s gospel. You introduced the things of man into the things of God and spoke perverse things to lead away disciples from the Lord unto yourself. Monstrous rebellion!

Kiss the Son!

Let your proud mouth that took counsel against Jehovah and against his anointed now kiss the Son in humility. Let your foolish lips that spoke of casting away Jehovah’s bands and cords now kiss the Son in willing submission to him. Let your hard heart that raged against God and his truth and that imagined the vain things of man now bring you to kiss the Son in grateful worship of him. All of you who strut and preen as though you alone of all people of the earth know how to call to repentance, now hear this call to your own repentance.

Kiss the Son!

The calling is urgent! The time is today! He that sits in the heavens already laughs and already has the wicked in derision. Repent now, lest the Son be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.

Kiss the Son!

And blessed are all they that put their trust in him. These are the beloved of the Father, who belong unto the Son. These are they whose rebellions have pierced the hands and feet of the Son and for whom he shed his blood. These are they who have been given to the Son by the Father, and no man shall pluck them out of his hand. These are they who have been drawn unto the Son by the Father himself, being called according to his purpose. And they truly are blessed!