“To make them sit with princes . . .” Psalm 113:8
Our spiritual privileges are of the highest order. Among princes is the place of select society. “Indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.” Speak of select society, there is none like this! “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.” “And to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven.” The saints have courtly audience: princes have admittance to royalty when common people must stand afar off. The child of God has free access to the inner courts of heaven. “For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” “Let us then with confidence draw near,” says the apostle, “to the throne of grace.”
Among princes there is abundant wealth, but what is the abundance of princes compared with the riches of believers? For “all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.” “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” Princes have peculiar power. A prince of heaven’s empire has great influence: he wields a scepter in his own domain; he sits upon Jesus’ throne, for he “has made us kings and priests to his God and Father.” We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity.
Princes, again, have special honor. We may look down upon all earth-born dignity from the eminence upon which grace has placed us. For what is human grandeur to this, he “raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus”? We share the honor of Christ, and compared with this, earthly splendors are not worth a thought. Communion with Jesus is a richer gem than ever glittered in imperial diadem. Union with the Lord is a coronet of beauty outshining all the blaze of imperial pomp.
Adapted from Morning and Evening.
