William Golding was a Royal Navy Lieutenant who took part in the D-Day landings. His experience of that conflict and the Cold War that followed, inspired him to write his first novel Lord of the Flies. In the book a party of school children are stranded on a desert island. Initially rejoicing that no adults have survived they attempt to build their own society with just three rules – to have fun, survive and keep hoping for rescue.

But their dreams of utopia quickly unravel as the desire for power leads to division and a swift descent into savagery. By the end of the book one of the boys is seconds away from being murdered until he runs headlong into an adult – a sailor who has been drawn to the island by a fire the boys have started. The rescue they had longed for has finally arrived and order is restored.

While the book is fiction, the point of the story is that without proper accountability human society tends to decay. We need an adult in the room! Good to know then that in Jesus, the king of kings and lord of lords that’s exactly what we can have.

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