A Question of Royalty

"...live lives worthy of the God who has called you to share the splendour of his own kingdom."

1 Thessalonians 2:12

The Coronation of Alexander III and Maria Fedorovna, Georges Becker (1888)

If the painting above was only an infinitesimal sliver of the "splendour" of the Kingdom of Heaven, a Kingdom you are promised one day to "share" with your Savior, your Brother, the Lord Jesus...

if "in all which will one day belong to him we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will)" (Eph. 1:11)...

if you really "are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession" (1 Pet. 2:9)...

if all that He "claims as his will belong to all of us as well..." (Rom. 8:17)...

...then a question is immediately begged:

Today - and this week - and for the remainder of this month - and this year - and for remainder of the life allotted to you - as a true son or daughter of God, a splendid prince or princess of this Kingdom, an inheritor of His glory, a sharer in His purposes, a chosen one, a royal envoy, a person made holy by His very blood: His own special personal possession...

...what sort of life will you live?