THE PRINCESS AND THE PRINCE OF PEACE

One day as the Princess was looking out her window, she saw all the Commoners who were citizens of the Kingdom of Darkness and she thought back to when she was one of them.

The Princess knew why and how she first came into the Kingdom of the Most High King. She had chosen to. Although she was not worthy to be there, she could choose to because of the Prince of Peace.

The Prince of Peace is the only begotten child of the King. All the other children of the King came into the family by adoption. The Commoners were not and never could be worthy to be members of the Kings family, even though they were the children of the first prince and princess created by the King. This couple were created perfect and because the King wanted someone to love him freely, he gave them the freedom to choose between his ways or to go their own way. They chose to go their own way, thereby forever sealing their childrens destiny; the way of death.

The King, being perfect, had to accept his creation's choice. Unless he could find a way to help them without breaking his own rules they would be lost forever, doomed to a miserable life under the rule of the Prince of Darkness in His Kingdom of Eternal Darkness. This is where the Prince of Peace came in.

The King, the Kingdom Comforter and the Prince of Peace had a conference and decided that the only way to win back the freedom of the King's children was for the Prince of Peace to lay aside his royalty and become as one of the Commoners. He could walk among them and show them the way out of the Kingdom of Darkness into the Kingdom of Light, which was his Father's, the King's realm. The Prince of Peace had a hard road ahead. He would have to live as the Commoners lived and because of the darkness over the kingdom, he would be hated by many. Finally he would take on himself the punishment due the Commoners because of their rejection of the King. The punishment was horrendous, not only physically but emotionally and most of all spiritually. It would mean a period of time that Father and Son would be separated, totally and absolutely. This had never happen before for the Father and the Son were so completely one that it was impossible to distinguish where one ended and the other began. That moment of separation would be the most unthinkable part of the punishment, the one thing he dreaded most. That broken fellowship that he would endure for a time, that total darkness is what the Commoners were doomed to experience for eternity if a way out was not provided. The Prince of Peace agreed so because of His and His Father's love for the Commoners, he would bear the unbearable.

It was for this reason that the Princess was able to come into the Kingdom of Light. The Prince of Peace provided the way, the Kingdom Comforter made the offer and the King welcomed her after she accepted.

She had never regretted it. She did have times when she wondered if it was worth it. Times when she was hurting emotionally, physically or even spiritually. Then she would think of the plight of the Commoners who had the same human frailties she had, but no Heavenly Father to go to with their hurts. She knew without a doubt she had made the right decision.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS THIS: IF YOU ARE A COMMONER YOU NEED TO ACCEPT THE KINGS GRACIOUS OFFER AND BECOME ONE OF HIS CHILDREN. THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNTHINKABLE. Linda Knox Rubenack © 1992