ROYALTY

Parade magazine's cover story yesterday posed the question "Do we still need royalty in the 21st Century?" Sometimes I wonder what I would do if I were King....then I see yard needing mowed, my underwear needing laundered and I wake up. I don't think anyone would want me to be and truthfully, I'm a subject of a risen King. What is so so cool though is that I'm an heir with Him. His word to us informs us that we are royal too! "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." (1 Peter 2:9) Do you act like royalty? Not in a selfish-bring-me-tea or off-with-their-head kind of way, but in the way it should be. Royalty are supposed to be caretakers of their people. Shepherds if you will. James lays out the task of royalty: If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right. (James 2:8) We are royalty. We should act like it. Love People.