How is a royal baby treated?
With pomp and circumstance, or roughly, to encourage them to feel a connection to the common man?
In the royal houses of Europe, teens on the way to the throne were often bundled off to boarding school, where they met rough and ready. They were being toughened up for their upcoming ascension to the throne.
Coddled as children, trundled away as teens, and catered to as adults, they were often a mess by the time they took the throne.
Who would want to be the child of a king?
Jeremiah 23:5 tells us a royal birth was on the way:
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.”
Titus 3:5-6 gives us Jesus’ purpose:
“He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.”
Zechariah 9:9 reveals our response:
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
Jesus was born rough, lived simply, and was battered for his beliefs. Yet, he was a king, able to set his royal blood aside and take hits that no one had the right to give.
Why? He loved us and desired us to come unto him.
His hand is still out, waiting for us. Let’s draw unto him today.
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