Want To Live Like A King?

To those of us who IN REALITY forsook all to WALK the narrow path, through its MANY trials, tribulations, humiliations, heartbreaks, visions, revelations and supernatural encounters, and reached the destination, we suffer no illusions of grandeur and know for an absolute fact, that living like a king (or queen) has absolutely nothing whatsoever, to do with worldly riches, palaces, limos, private jets, fancy clothes or lording it over others, etc. It has everything to do with living according to the characteristic virtues of true love's divine nature, so that your character shines with their majesty and very, very few measure up to what it takes.

Living like a king is also about having an uncommon degree of common sense (wisdom) and being an excellent judge of character. The cautionary tale of the emperor with no clothes is all about this, as anyone who is even a halfway decent judge of character and has even an average degree of common sense, would've SEEN that the two tailors were unscrupulous and pulling the wool over their eyes (deceiving them), and know that there's no such thing as invisible fabric. He did not behave like a king, a perfect gentleman or saint by any other name, but an ignorant savage/sinner who's character, thoughts, words and deeds were corrupted, blinded, deceived, governed and ruled by the characteristic pride and vanity of the beast of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of his flesh God named Satan and man calls ego.

Below is part of the transcript from the movie, "King Ralph", labelled as "A comedy of majestic proportions", in which Ralph is played by John Goodman (ironically). Hopefully, if you want to truly live like a king, it will make what it takes to be one clearer to you.

If you haven't seen the movie, it's about a down on his luck Las Vegas entertainer, who after the entire royal family is wiped out in a freak accident, becomes the king of England and when He finds out what it truly entails, couldn't handle it and abdicated his throne. I've added my notes in parentheses.

RALPH: "What is it that a king does all day?"

CEDRIC: "Scarcely a minute of your day is unaccounted for. Nevertheless, what you do is not as important... as what you are."

RALPH: "What am I?"

CEDRIC: "To be the king of England is a RESPONSIBLITY (a virtue) like no other on Earth. You must become a symbol... of all that is best (virtuous) about England. An embodiment of our history, our culture, our morality, our pride of achievement. In short, our ideal of civilization (an absolutely perfect gentleman). You must, in the harsh light of public scrutiny, exhibit all of our virtues and none of our shortcomings."

RALPH: "I thought all I was supposed to do... was dress up and wave. I don't even know what our virtues are."

CEDRIC: "You will learn soon enough. I'm afraid it's a god's burden to bear. Unfortunately, it must be borne by a man."

PRIME MINISTER: "Good evening, Your Majesty."

CEDRIC: "It's not enough to be king. You must look and ACT like one."

Further along in the movie, Ralph finds it all too hard to manage and abdicates his throne, saying this in his address to parliament.

RALPH: "As happy as I am about all this, it doesn't make up for my shortcomings as a king. I have done my best to learn the ways of royalty, to try to be the kind of king you could be proud of. But I'm afraid my best will never be good enough. Too often, my personal instincts conflict with my obligations. For that reason, I have decided to give up my throne."

Yes in-deed! All too often we allow the characteristic pride, vanity, envy, selfishness, ambition, lust, greed, desire for creature comfort and/or fear for survival of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic (self-centered & self-righteous) nature of our flesh, to conflict with and turn us away from doing the "right" (virtuous) thing and unbeknownst to us, causes us to be less than an absolutely perfect gentleman or gentlewoman and stoop to lower levels (abdicate our throne), whether we're aware of it or not, know it or not, believe it or not, understand it or not.

This is why, to live in heaven with the king of kings, the absolutely perfect gentleman of perfect gentlemen, in the eternal, EGOLESS, presence, realm and reality of God's divine nature and characteristics of absolute, undying, true love and virtuousness, in absolute supernatural power and majestic glory, is not for the faint of heart, religious tares (egos) & lukewarm fence sitters in the halfway house (church), or the ignorant savages who's minds are corrupted, blinded, deceived, governed and ruled (brainwashed, stained/marked & led) by the sinful (unvirtuous) characteristics of THE BEAST of the flesh God named Satan and man calls ego. In short, it's not for the unvirtuous (unrighteous) whose instincts and ego conflict with their obligations. For their best will never be good (virtuous) enough and will find in the end, that they fall extremely far, far shorter than they egoistically (self-centeredly & self-righteously) like to think they are and vainly imagine themselves to be. For only those who have totally got over themselves and been cleansed of every spot, stain, mark and blemish of the sinful (unvirtuous) characteristics of the nature of the beast of the flesh, in their every thought, word and deed, make the cut. For while MANY are called, extremely few are chosen (picked in the harvest), for only the absolute best will do. Let those who have the ear to hear and eye to see beyond their own, little, carnal, instinctual, egoistic world of self, get the bigger picture.

Grace (gracefulness and graciousness) and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God (absolute love) and of Jesus our Lord (true love's/God's perfect gentleman), as His divine power (holy ghost) has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (and other characteristics of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of the flesh).2 Peter 1:2-4

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the (carnal, instinctual, egoistic) things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the (virtuous) things of the Spirit (divine nature). For to be carnally (instinctively and egoistically) minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal (instinctual and egoistic) mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law (virtues) of God (absolute, undying, true love), nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh (corrupted, blinded, deceived, governed and ruled by their instincts and ego) cannot please God.Romans 8:5-8

GENEROSITY

passive lamb-like characteristic of true love's divine nature

Generosity is giving and sharing. You share freely, not with the idea of receiving something in return. You find ways to lift the spirit of others, and give just for the joy of sharing. Generosity is one of the best ways to show love and kindness.

But a generous man devises generous things, and by generosity he shall stand.Isaiah 32:8

Challenge yourself to be aware of any and all opportunities to practice and apply generosity in your life this week, and the times you should have, but didn't because of the characteristic pride, vanity, envy, selfishness, ambition, lust, greed, desire for creature comfort and/or fear for survival of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic (self-centered) nature of your flesh.