THE YEARNING

“The yearning for regal bearing is there, deep within our hungry souls, but the actualization, the manifestation of that truth is often resigned to children’s fairy tales, myth, and surrendered to the realm of legend”—from the upcoming book, Noble Plans.

When I share my heart behind Noble Plans there are generally one of two responses. There are those who immediately grasp the concept because it has been playing in the back of their minds for years. They latch onto the virtues of noble living as if they had needed permission.

Then there are those who glance at me askance as if to say, “Yea, right. You go on telling yourself that, but life doesn’t work that way.” They are the ones who somewhere deep inside yearn to make noble plans, but have relegated their regal calling to the realm of fairy tales and legend.

I cannot blame the second group. Most of them have be taught, either by those in authority or by life’s hard knocks, that regal living is myth. Their skepticism has its reasons. Sadly however, it denies the words of Scripture:

• “You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings” (1 Corinthians 4:8).
• “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness . . .” (Matthew 6:33).
• “For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble” (1 Corinthians 1:26).
• “He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory” (1Samuel 2:8).

The Bible holds many, many more such examples.

If you are eager to embrace a noble life, then do so. If there is a yearning burning inside you to live as a princess or prince of the Great High King, then wait for no one — embody those principles!

If on the other hand, you think the ideal is fine, but the actualization too far a stretch, then reexamine the Scriptures. Has God called you spiritually to live as a prince or as a pauper?


"A noble man devises noble plans; and by noble plans he stands"