Inaugural Meditations...
I didn't watch the inauguration  the lip-syncing controversy was more interesting to me (to be perfectly honest). Funny when a stage filled with so many people that use their lips to avoid the truth such a focus was placed on a singer using her lips to pretend to sing live. But that is another sermon. 
Something I read recently in Len Sweet/Frank Violas excellent new book "Jesus - A Theography" Got me thinking about how different Jesus inauguration was for his "second term". 
If his first term  was inaugurated at the nativity' it was observed and attended by more of a "Who Are They?" list than a "Who's Who"...mere shepherds and possibly a few livestock. Or maybe we could consider his Baptism at the Jordan River under John...again not really a big scene.  Len and Franks book had me thinking about the final days before his cross in Mark 14 
Unlike that front-steps-of-the-place-and-symbols-of-power, surrounded by a carefully selected list of guests Mr. Obama orchestrated (pictured above) consider Jesus inauguration (anointing) pictured in Mark 14 .
Location chosen? In Bethany ( off site from the most powerful photo-op location of the temple in Jerusalem) 
Guest List? He is reclining at the table of a leper ( really non-kosher very politically incorrect). 
Women performing at the event?   A "woman" does the anointing  (Mark doesn't comment on her moral reputation but an unmarried woman busting into a "mens meeting" and touching a single religious teacher was a real shocker) she pours really expensive perfume all over the place(actually all over Jesus feet)  making quite a scene! .
The Reaction of the Press?If you look up the reaction from even his "handlers"  you realize that just as in Mr Obama's big day, a scandal over a woman's involvement got the biggest headlines.
He really meant it when he said his kingdom was unlike anything the world could really imagine. 
I have no idea what Mr Obama will be able to accomplish in his final four years of "power". 
I don't claim to know what Jesus will do, in the rest of his term either; but I do know this , it will be whatever he has decided he will do, it will be perfectly just true and to the glory of his father and he will never have to worry for a second if his "legacy" will last.