Royal Priesthood

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.-1 Peter 2:9 


Yesterday we took our 3-year-old granddaughter to the Renaissance Festival after church.  She met us before church in one of her dress-up princess dresses.  She looked adorable, but she looked like a little girl dressed up like a princess.  When we entered the festival gates, that changed.  The Renaissance characters honored Cecelia as she entered with low, sweeping bows, exclaiming, "Welcome, Princess!"  She walked a little taller. She looked a little prouder.  She really looked like a princess... not just a little girl in princess clothes.

St. Peter tells us we are a royal priesthood.  After all, we are children of a King, right?  That makes us all princes and princesses.  Sadly, we don't always act that way.  And more sadly, we don't treat one another that way either.  And that may be the bigger problem.  Maybe we don't act like children of God, because we don't treat one another like children of God.


I guess it would be pretty silly if we went around physically bowing to each other all the time, but maybe we could make it a practice to bow in our minds... to bow our hearts before one another.  It's another way of humbling ourselves before others.  The change that it will make to our attitude will be felt by those we honor and it will make them feel a little more like a child of God.


What wonderful things we could do in this world if we all really felt and acted like the royal family we are!


Lord God,
We are all your children.  Help us to treat one another that way so that we can really be about the work you have given us to do in this world.  Amen.


Joys:  Cecelia treasuring the ring given to her by a pirate; wonderful weekend with family; little princesses