A prince has been born!
His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, the son of HRH Prince William of Wales, Duke of Cambridge and HRH Duchess Catherine nee Middleton of Cambridge.
George, my boy, the world is your oyster. What are you going to do with it?
The baby prince has all the opportunity and potential any human baby could want or imagine.
Loving parents. Wealth. A heritage and inheritance a mile long.
A whole kingdom at his wee fingertips for crying out loud.
He has the adoration of the world.
He’ll have the best education, best clothes, best Christmas gifts ever!
But at the end of the day, what Prince George does with Prince George is up to him.
He can use his powers for good. Or for evil.
And if you ask me, he’s going to need Jesus.
One of the ideas I explored while writing Once Upon A Prince for my hero, Prince Nathaniel, was did God really call him to a royal station.
Was he a prince because man made him a prince or was he a prince because God called him.
When we are born to certain families or social stations, it can seem like we arrived at our life by happenstance.
Whether rich or poor, God has carefully, lovingly designed our lives and His intention over us.
Look at Ephesians 1. I love these verses:
“…He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will… In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention… with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times…”
God has called us with a purpose in mind.
He has kind intentions toward us.
And He as a plan. Who knew? God is an administrator. (I know, so many of you are feeling validated right now, aren’t you.)
We all have royal potential in Christ.
The question is, “What are we doing with it?”
Take your world and make it your kingdom.
What if in your house, you started living like God’s royal priest and king/queen?
What if you changed from self serving to selfless serving?
What if you worked to control your thoughts and emotions, and lived to trust in YOUR King?
What if you understood the authority you had in Christ over sickness, pain, heartache, the lost?
Lately, when I pray, I’m like, “I believe He hears me and will answer.”
I’m a Princess! Why would He deny me access to Him.
He wouldn’t. He won’t.
Prince George has more in his two day little life than I’ll ever have in mine.
But I must use my potential, my resources to the fullest as must he.
George was born onto the world’s stage. He maybe be a prince in the United Kingdom, but he’s a prince to the entire world.
Can you imagine the power and influence he could weld if he so desired?
At the beginning of World War II when Hitler was making his move, Prince Edward turned King Edward VIII of Britain had Nazi sympathies.
This terrified the British government.
While they weren’t thrilled the titular Head of the Church of England was sleeping with a twice divorced American, they were horrified he visited with Adolf.
The cause for England’s fight and freedom against Hitler’s reign of terror would’ve been vastly undermined had Edward remained as king.
So the government found a way to ousts him.
What are you doing with your potential?
What is God calling you to that seems to small to bother with but just might change a child or a man’s world?
Let’s pray for the Lord of Hosts to encounter Prince George. Oh, what the world might look like in 60 years when he will be king.
Pray he knows and loves Jesus. Pray your children and grandchildren know and love Jesus.
Let’s walk in our royal potential.