Jesus was given in an act of vulnerability, he came vulnerable in manger-mild, and he was killed in the great act of willing vulnerability. This is important, and inextricably bound to his Kingship. This is the kind of king that Jesus was, and is.
It does do one well to consider the kind of kingship that Jesus represents. Jesus of Nazareth didn’t reign from a position of political and military strength. If we can follow our Great King, who embraced powerlessness in the manger and on the cross…great things can happen.
No army has ever defeated the power of darkness and evil. No bomb has ever staved the power of death.
But…a bloody, beaten, and naked Christ did. And, he’s our King.