This story embodies God’s heart toward us. John Eldredge writes of Kierkegaard’s story, “The king clothes himself as a beggar and renounces his throne in order to win her hand. The Incarnation, the life and death of Jesus, answers once and for all the question, ‘What is God’s heart toward me?’”[4] This is vitally important because it is in God’s heart toward me that I learn who I really am.
