Three things are stately in their stride, four that move with stately bearing: a lion, mighty among beasts, who never backs down from anything; a strutting rooster, a male-goat, and a king with his army around him. Proverbs 30:29-31, TLV
Does Your “Crown” Fit? This might be a “blink”* passage for you — it sure was for me for a number of years. Recently, our Heavenly Father cracked the window into some insights that were helpful to me. Hopefully, they will be to you.
The animals depicted in these verses are in of themselves stately, but, the king isn’t “stately” until he has an army that surrounds him. Which would imply that he also has subjects in his kingdom.
The animals were created with that bearing and persona, the man must learn and earn his. He may be born a future king, but he must learn what it means to be king before men will be willing to die by his side. Because there is no guarantee a man born a king will assume that role.
“Know well the condition of your flocks,
pay attention to your herds,
for riches are not forever,
nor a crown from generation to generation.” Proverbs 27:23-24, TLV
So . . . What does that mean to us? I was thinking, when
we are born again, we assume our “office” as child of the King. Yet, we must now learn what it means to be royalty. And that doesn’t mean we can boss people around and lord it over them.
It’s not enough to say we are the King’s kids, our life, our behavior must reflect it. Otherwise, the crown doesn’t fit and others will not follow our example. That’s how we know, truly know our life reflects our royalty, by the fruit it produces.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.” Matthew 12:33, TLV
Think More About It
That’s the tidbit I took away from these verses in Proverbs, what did you receive?
Until tomorrow, may we have the stately bearing of a child of the King, my friends.
*A “blink” passage is a verse(s) in Scripture we might just overlook because it doesn’t appear to have any relevance to us. What I’ve learned over the years is that those “blink” verses can contain answers to mysteries, or open doors to a new vista of understanding. If we take the time to stop and pay attention to what the Holy Spirit might be telling us. Thanks to Dr. Raleigh Washington for coining this phrase.
Praying for Israel
Let them praise His Name with dancing.
Let them sing praises to Him with tambourine and harp.
For ADONAI [the LORD] takes pleasure in His people.
He crowns the humble with salvation.
Let the kedoshim [saints] exult in glory.
Let them sing for joy on their beds. Psalm 149:3-5, TLV
Ready to rejoice? Yes? No? Guess what, even if the circumstances aren’t such that we want to rejoice, we can still choose to rejoice. When we do this, it becomes a sacrifice of praise—something pleasing to our LORD. Our humility is crowned! Join me? Halleluyah and God bless!
