God’s evident intention of royalty.
It is such a temptation to devalue traditions of our parents and to regard the traditions of position and respect as being a relic of the Dark Ages. It is certainly covered, as is exemplified in many of the Disney renditions of princess stories, to be covered with ivy and thorns and thistles and even a maddening mysticism. These traditions of royalty are ours by inheritance and they are ours by practice, but are they profitable to us spiritually? Are they blessed? Are they symbols? Are they glorifying to God?
In every station of life, God can be glorified and in every station of humanity God can be denied.
My Grandma had a large picture of Queen Elizabeth. I remember seeing her looking down on us, when we had tea. All of the traditions of the elders were questioned through the hippie generation and this was one of the traditions that was diminished in the wake of that revolution {cultural revolution}. We throw away royalty and we throw away respect.
I remember the stories of how seriously Elizabeth was trained to emulate respect and respectability, in days of want for many people. It was to the benefit of many that there was a family that had everything and yet they were careful to use thought as to how to express themselves in such a state of life.
What is God expecting me to show my children in my exaltation as mother?
What is God expecting me to show my children in my exalted position as wife?
What is God expecting me to show my children in my exalted position as a child of God?
Blessed with the incorruptible riches of the knowledge of God, in a day where the dearth is palpable and the darkness so deep is the most exalted state of human life. We have the light of the promises of God and the heart of His expression of His will on the earth. He is exalted and lifted up, in the lives of His people. Winning the lost is just one way. Living in the light of the glory of God in our condition of life does more to win others than talking.
God is exalted. God is the eternal royalty. Emulation of God in royalty is the emulation of beauty and power and glory, with the absolute utmost humility. None of us can attain to that and we needn’t try. If we are exalted, we must be that and be humble and if we are abased, we must be that and be humble. It is not the exalted or abased part that is difficult, but the humble part.
If I had a daughter {and my daughters are already royal}, but if she were going into the crucible to public attention to her, like Kate Middleton, I would pray for her soul. I would let her watch the Little Princess. I would pray that she would learn to abhor highmindedness and prejudice. I would pray that she would learn to think before she speaks and think before she acts. I would pray that she would learn to put her errors behind her, quickly and learn that those will be more looked at and remembered than her gifts and graces. I would teach her to give the glory to God in her life so that she needn’t be afraid that the accolades that others shower upon her would take from God’s glory, because each day she is at the altar of the Lord, pouring her praise upon Him and begging for all the glory to go to Him. It needn’t be said to people in every sentence, or it becomes trite, but it does need to be said to God in the secret place where all is seen in His presence. Lord, my heart is open and bear before You and I give You all the glory, to Whom all the glory is due. Then, a young woman is prepared to take the hand of the prince and live out her vow to God, for His glory, in whatsoever state that she is. Learning to be content.
Some days she will wake and it will seem like a bad dream. Too much Lord. Too much attention, when will these people back off and mind their business and care for their own needs. They don’t back off, though. Some times it will seem like a good dream, stars and wonders that other humans only wish for. All the time God is there and He always deserves the glory. He always deserves my heart to hold His hand. What do you want me to learn from this, Lord? Where do you want me to go with this, Lord? Prisoner of Zenda would be the second movie that I would show. The picture of the princess who is bound to her kingdom and her God, even before the wants of her own heart. We are all called to that kind of consistency. I want my way, but God has placed the path of duty before me. This is not the kind of consistency that is self wrought, but begged for and God-wrought, so as not to cause others to fall to their eternal destruction and to be true to the calling that God has placed on your life. Help me not to be a cast away Lord. Help me to adorn the cause of Christ in my station and not to upbraid it.
