God speaks words of royalty over our lives. Commoners like you and I, born into spiritual poverty, can now be found in The King's Presence. We are not just visiting; He invites us to live with Him benefitting from all His promises and glory. To assure us God proclaims in His Word that in Jesus we are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession so that we may declare praises to Him who has brought us out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9-10). So we always act like it - right?
About 15 years after those words of God were written and spoken among the early churches, God has to speak words of rebuke in Revelation. Apparently His royal kids were acting a bit spoiled hanging out in His Presence and needed to repent from losing their first love, following false teaching, immorality, and living a "lukewarm", spiritual existence (Revelation Chs 2 & 3).
How does this happen? How did they/do we lose sight of the words of royalty declared over us by God? What is it about longevity in the King's Presence that can sometimes breed complacency, wrong behavior, or casualness? God brings us from nothingness to greatness in Him, and, yet, we get drawn into lesser things in a short order of time.
In Revelation God spends no time asking why or how this has happened. He simply gets right to the solution: Repent. Turn away from that behavior and go the other direction. Do not spend another minute acting like a spoiled child. Act like the royal, privileged person you have become in Jesus and conduct yourself accordingly.
It does not matter who you were Yesterday. Today you have been engrafted into God's chosen people, His royal priesthood, His holy nation, and His special possession. So repent and enjoy all His benefits; walk, NOT because you belong there, but because He put you there...Once you did not have mercy but now you have received mercy.
Ex nihilo,
R.J. Rhoden
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