September 25, 2026, the 268th day of 2026
The Dignity of True Royalty
Jesus never stopped being the King when He left His throne in Heaven and took on flesh.... View MoreSeptember 25, 2026, the 268th day of 2026
The Dignity of True Royalty
Jesus never stopped being the King when He left His throne in Heaven and took on flesh.
Everything He did carries the dignity of His royal position, of His Godhead.
Jesus humbled Himself and became a servant to humanity, to save us and lift us out of the slavery of sin. But He never lost the dignity of the King of kings, even as He fed the masses, healed the sick, washed the feet of His disciples, even the one He knew would betray Him.
But Jesus never became a door mat. He allowed what had to be, in obedience to His Father, but He knew Who He was during the process.
There is a dignity in true royalty, dwelling in Heavenly places, the Creator of all that is. Knowing Who He was, He could reply, unflinching, to the rants of the Pharisees. He was so far above them that He could pity them. They thought to put Him in His place, not knowing what His place actually was.
Jesus has mercy. Jesus knows our frailty. He came to redeem us. Even as He was mocked, torchered and scorned, they could not break down that royal dignity, which probably enraged them the more.
Jesus is so far above us, that to even look upon us, was to look into the mud soaked trenches of sin. But He was not concerned about what He appeared to be as He pulled us out. He knew Who He was. And He knew His mission.
Jesus not only washes away our sin, our guilt, our shame, when we repent and turn to Him in surrender as our Lord, our Master, our King. He makes of us a new creation, eternal, a child of God, a royal child of the Kingdom of Heaven.
When we do His work, we should never lose that dignity. It comes from a pure heart, the heart of righteousness, the heart of love.
It is nevet snooty, proud or arrogant. In its humility there is strength, not weakness. In doing the tasks we are called upon to do by our Father, the High King, we are serving the Kingdom as His children, not as His slaves.
And though we call ourselves slaves to Jesus, we are slaves to no other. We serve our King, not man. In our tasks we too carry the dignity of true royalty with us. And because of that, we can reach down and pull up. We can lift up and encourage. We can carry the light into the darkness. We can smile in the face of the Devil and say, "you have no dominion over me!"
Many have repented and surrendered to Jesus. But many have never left the dominion of this world. They are still held by its system, by its cares, by its whims.
But it is an ungodly system. Though they are the royalty of Heaven, they live as servants of those who dwell in darkness, forgetting Who their Lord and Master is, and of what Kingdom tbey are.
That is false humility. It is a trap of the Devil to keep God's children down and ignorant of their position. And it is something vile. It is serving a corrupt system as a pawn, instead of serving the righteous Kingdom as an heir. And they need to wake up or they will be swept away with it.
Stay strong! Do all that God would ask of you with the dignity of true royalty, the dignity of Jesus, Who did what He did, never forgetting Who He was, where He came from and where He was returning to.
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