Bowing the Knee

“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Philippians 2:9-11 

“…at the name of Jesus every knee should bow…”

Maybe you look around and you say – “I don’t see all that many knees bowing”. Often when I read this verse I picture someone standing before the Lord and in rebellion still refusing to bow their knee when quietly an angel comes up behind them and pushes on the back of their leg at the knee, like we used to do as children to get another person to fall down, and voila, their knee bows before Him. That image is probably not too theologically accurate. You see there will be recognition of the honor due that Name even to those who never surrendered to it in this life. The evidence will be so overwhelming that the knee will bow and the tongue will confess. The word does not say some knees, it clearly says all knees will bow before the name of Jesus.

Do you bow your knee now or are you a ‘future-knee-bower’?

Do you recognize Him as Lord and honor His name now through obedience to Him?

Is the knee bowed in humble adoration today or is it only a:

‘far-in-the-future-fulfill-the-word-act-of-submission’ on your part?

Do you see the difference?

I am convinced that if more of us who know Jesus as Savior and Lord bowed our knees in humble recognition of His Lordship now, He would draw more people to Himself through that simple act of obedience on our part.

Too often people look at us and we have the same posture as the rest of the world.

No bowed knees.

Nothing shows them a ‘bowed-knee-life’ in us so they take no note. Understand, though, our part is to humbly bow the knee in recognition of His Lordship and He will draw others to Himself.

Bow your knee now or bow your knee later.