Beat down from my royal self

I've been beat down by the world. One way I can see this now is in my feel of being more royal in my past intense Work days. Afterall, looking at it from a Christian angle, we are royalty. Heirs of the King, heirs of a Kingdom, kings ourselves (there is no 'male or female' in Christ, hence you say kings). I had this sense inside me (not in a self-conscious way, but I can see it looking back). Then I started dressing differently (for instance) and carrying myself differently. Like I'd said: "OK, world, you win. I skulk amidst you now."

Not really skulk, but definitely less a sense of royalty amidst the world. More like a proletarian. Or less.

But this is a remarkable subject in the context of faith: royalty. Kingdom. Heirs of a king. Kings. Prophets, priests, kings. There is a definite feeling to being royalty rather than the democratic or living-under-tyranny feeling of yourself in life. (The different forms of government I'm referring to.) I have to walk out there like I'm a king. I don't mean having fluffy sleeves (necessarily), but the feel of royalty. Real royalty. The liberty of it, for instance. The power (spiritual power). Living in the spirit as royalty of the Kingdom of God.

It's something to meditate on. To cultivate. Not to bring down to worldly meanings or anything like that, which of course is a stumblingblock, or potential missing-of-the-mark. But to cultivate actually inhabiting, in understanding, in feeling, and physically (and spiritually) a royal sense of who you are. Higher centers are royal attributes. For instance, they know no resentment. I mean REAL royalty. Not worldly kingdoms with worldly cartoonish human stereotypes of royalty, but real royalty. Heirs of the Living God. The Kingdom of God royalty.

When you meditate on this it is a stark example (and foundational example) of new thinking. New attitudes. It is the very same as imagining what a person with a higher level of being would act like and think and feel like. You for instance immediately see that "everything is OK" (Paul in Romans gets at this 8:28, and really all through that chapter); i.e. there is no reason to be angry or sad. It's a new state to realize. How can you be angry or sad when you are in effect a glorified being now, just still living out your final days in the flesh until it is a complete reality? You are in heaven now as well. I.e., you are no longer in the devil's hell and kingdom of death, you - spiritually - have left that prison and have been freed into the light; the kingdom of heaven; heaven itself...and glorified. In higher aspects of time you are in the heavenlies now with Christ. So you can't be angry or upset or resentful about anything when you consciously get yourself into this state of new thinking; and the fact that you are royalty and no longer a prisoner to the devil and his kingdom - this world - is a big part of this new thinking...