A PRINCE AND PRINCESS
Once upon a time in a land far away, there lived a young prince and princess. They looked like average people to everyone else. They weren’t born in a castle, they were born in their respective humble surroundings.
The princess and the prince attended the government schools like most of the population. Eventually, they married fine looking spouses who like them, were the people of humble and average looking lives, but were also unnoticed royalty.
The other seemingly average people the prince and princess encountered throughout their lives never had the inclination to consider them royalty. After all they “looked” just like everyone else.
The laws of nature that are visible and obvious are taken at face value by the world. Few of us take the time to contemplate the laws of the universe that cannot be seen. We assume the laws of nature that can be viewed is all there is.
Even when something happens in the world that can’t really be explained in physical terms, the world ignores it and chalks it up to just a fluke.
When I was in my late teens I got ran over by a 6,000 lb. forklift. It actually rolled up the back of my leg, over the back of my knee and hamstring area, up onto my buttocks, up my back about a foot before the back wheel of the forklift turned off my body. The place where it happened was mostly sand, except this location. My knee was directly over rocks.
I was hurt but not dead. The x-rays didn’t even show any broken bones. I would find out many years later the bottom vertebrae of my back had a hairline fracture and my knee cap was sheered in half long ways. I wasn’t down for too long, a couple of weeks with it elevated and then drained and I was on my way.
The physical chances of that much weight rolling over bones and joints doing only that little damage is absolutely impossible. So how could I explain something like that? At the time, I didn’t give the principalities possibility any thought or credit. Sure I knew God was powerful, made the earth, did miracles, but this, in my youthful ignorance I considered to be my invincible being.
Consider an underfunded, undernourished, outmanned, American army defeating the most powerful military in the world… Luck, chance, fluke, really?! Interesting the common denominator for these flukes is almost always faith in God. The Power over nature and it’s laws that can’t be seen by the human eyeball.
I wonder how many people who are Christians have fallen into the trap of the senses. Most of us use what we can see, hear, touch, smell, and taste to form our perspective of this world. We have faith in our senses until we witness or discover a miracle. Then like the world, we use those senses to desensitize ourselves from the reality we can’t explain through our senses.
We make up or listen to theories made up in the flesh to explain away a supernatural occurrence. Most of us know the teaching of Jesus Christ and profess it and His gift as our heritage. Our faith must be significantly smaller than the mustard seed Christ described as the insignificant amount of faith needed to move mountains.
The world preys on the senses of all of us as if laws of nature were the only laws guiding our lives. When the Creator and Lawgiver of all things tell us otherwise we should consider being obedient in spite of what we can see or hear.
What the people who wrote the prince and princess off as average didn’t know or comprehend was the other-dimensional world that surrounded all of us that they couldn’t see.
They didn’t realize the KING of all creation had chosen the prince and princess from before the foundations of the universe. The world couldn’t see with their eyes what the prince and princess knew in their heart.
They would live happily ever after… Forever!
We are that prince and princess…
Gaby
Monday, January 10, 2011 @ 9:12 pm
Hey, Floyd. I saw your comment on my blog and I stopped by to “meet” you 🙂
I’ve often wondered about the size of my faith. If faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain, mine must be smaller than a grain of salt. One of my favorite stories in the Bible is the one where the father of the sick girl tells Jesus: “I believe, but help my unbelief.” I identify. Faith to me is a daily regrouping with God, humbly remembering that on my own I don’t even have faith the size of a grain of salt.
Thank you for stopping by!
Floyd
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 @ 7:00 am
I’m with you 100%, we’re all in the same boat. Our senses betray us most of the time. I think we limit God by our physical limits as if he were contained to a soul cage He created. He was once for us, but that final sacrifice has been paid. I too need help with my unbelief. It’s nice to meet you and your family.
Jake
Monday, January 10, 2011 @ 10:34 pm
Our perception stops at our fingertips and the horizon. I know I get sucked into forgetting not the spiritual principles that are in place but rather, the presences. Angelic or demonic, all around, scary as the deuces or serving God. It’s most disturbing when I don’t want to be seen, but what can we do? Rely on the Lord who never leaves nor forsakes us and be grateful that He’s also all around!
Great story!
Floyd
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 @ 7:02 am
Great line, “Our perception stops at our fingertips and the horizon.” That sums it up quite nicely. Thanks.
April
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 @ 8:12 am
We so often forget to acknowledge that God did something in our lives, whether big or small. Especially if it’s small…we chalk it up to our common sense, our good decision making, etc. We forget that our holy, awesome, loving, Heavenly Father, God did that for us. For instance, I am in the healing process and back at work because of my heavenly Father, God, not because of modern medicine, or anything I did, but because He saw fit to heal me at just this specific time, for just this specific reason. I praise Him for that!
As always, thank you for sharing your heart with us and I, for one, am glad that God saved your life that day!!
Floyd
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 @ 9:38 am
Thanks April, I’m always inspired and lifted up by your words. I thank God for your recovery, it is an answer to a lot of prayer from a lot of friends. Well actually brothers and sisters…
gale
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 @ 1:43 pm
some times i forget how good God has been to me
and mine
we are all children of God
thank you God for mercy instead of justice
Floyd
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 @ 3:06 pm
A-men to that, well said. “Thank you for mercy instead of justice.” That’s a motto we should all live by.