Sonship is Restrictive

There has been a lot of press about Prince Harry and his choices.

I read somewhere that since infancy it was made very clear to him that he was not being prepared for the throne and so he received a totally different treatment from that of his elder brother who is only one step from the throne. From the onset William was being prepared to take the throne and there was no secret about it.

That also means he was given a lot of leeway to run his life the way he wanted. That is why he could marry a divorcee from another race and it was okay.

Yet his father had to divorce his wife to marry the love of his youth because royal seed must be properly arranged. And it is interesting that there is a man somewhere fighting to prove that he is the product of that young love that had to be destroyed lest it defile royalty.

To imagine he received that treatment when he was third in line to the throne appears strange. But then since his brother got married and got three children he has been thrown to sixth in line

No wonder he appears to be throwing tantrums at the firm, whatever it means.

What am I aiming at?

God’s family also operates like that.

Those with greater responsibilities have more restraints than normal children. Only that we determine the kind of children we will become.

Discipline is many times reserved for the children with a future. You will not waste words and canes on a child showing no promise. In fact they will many times be pampered to at least belong.

I am in the disability ministry and know how it has become akin to walking without shoes on glass shards to address disability in an accurate and at the same time politically correct way. I will therefore avoid going to that direction.

You will discipline the child who understands what responsibility is.

Let me get to my point.

Remember when you got saved? How did you feel when you forgot a promise you had flimsily given?

Many times someone could even go for a fast to try to repent about that sin.

Do you realize that the restrictions of sonship increase with time?

Why is it that your sensitivity to sin has decreased as your faith and ministry grows? How come that you gloss over promises you make to the point that you refuse to take calls of people you have lied to?

You are actually not a son if you can find peace in sin.

How many ministers think of lateness as sin? How many will apologise for keeping people waiting yet they were the ones who set the time? Again that could be the clearest signal that they do not belong to the Kingdom of the Holy God.

If you are being prepared to reign with Christ, do you think He will flimsily prepare you?

A believer’s allergy to sin should increase as they grow. And they should lose peace promptly if they sin. Otherwise they have been shoved aside.

A son being prepared for the throne will never be allowed breathing space if he thought of doing something not aligned to the throne. The throne owns him until he becomes king. Then he will own the throne, though even then there will be more restrictions since he must then ‘cover’ the throne and the kingdom it runs.

I am however dealing with believers.

How can one be a minister yet be unaffected by sin in his life? How can someone claim faith yet live a life that is contrary to the faith he proclaims?

Is it possible to be a laughing stock to the world when proclaiming decrees from heaven?

What is possible is that we lost out on our positions in the kingdom that the king has abandoned us to our designs. We are released from our positions and become commoners.

You can fly off because you have been released from responsibility, and of course sonship.

And for some of us complaining that our faith seems to be all work and no play, I want to assure us that we are like that because we MUST function properly in the kingdom because the kingdom cannot afford to let go of us. We are restricted because we have a serious assignment and so must stick to the straight and narrow.

We must be hedged in on all sides because we must be exactly as the kingdom will have us.

Why do you pray? How do you pray? Does God speak to you about you as you pray? Does He challenge your everything, including thoughts and motives, as you pray?

Or does He only give you words to proclaim?

That could be the difference between a son and a subject, sometimes a subject who absconded sonhood by his choices.

A son is never left alone, not unless his father has given up on him.

You can’t enjoy the world and what the world offers comfortably and still claim to be a son of heaven. Both can simply never coexist. That is what Christ said.