Regal Prince

The essence of our participation in life should be the joyful understanding of the “saint” set free. When we think of the communion of saints one thing strikes me… it is that they all are in agreement yet derive at that place from a totally different and unique course. Life is so much about the outer countenance matching the inner heart, in a world where we hardly know what people are really thinking most of our emotions and beliefs are sheltered behind political correctness and outright deception. In the world of the storyteller, most of the antagonists are pitted against the most common and unassuming often simple character on the path of life. God likes us in our simplest state… the great saints like Thomas a’ Kempis, Hester Rogers, and John Woolman are the kind of characters God places in the kingdom narrative, they are people that operate from charity and obedience and the reason they are saints is that they are closest to God-likeness. They mostly operate in the margins but their influence is resounding, they sacrifice their own for furthering God’s Kingdom and are set on high in heavenly places. To worship God is to admit we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself. In pilgrim’s progress, one of the most potent oppositions to God on the pilgrim journey was “obstinance”, obstinance people are not only stubborn they are discouraging and disgusted by people on the “journey”. The reason Christ prepares us for persecution is that he understood firsthand how cruel the man-made world would be… The apostle Paul instructs followers of Christ, “ let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” When we experience life and grow not to harden but flourish in spite of our mishaps, missteps, and misdeeds we recognize grace and mercy and proclaim that if I have at all advanced in any way it is by Gods tender mercy and loving-kindness when we acknowledge God in this life he will acknowledge us at kingdoms gate…for there is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.