The Accession Counsel had been working around the clock to have papers ready, heralds in place, all royal matters fully in accordance with Constitutional  directives, and  hundreds of ceremonial details brushed and polished for the Proclamation.  Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, had returned to London, and from every city and village the Proclamation was read.  Voices rang out, “God Save the Queen!”

WHEREAS it has pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late Sovereign Lord King George the Sixth of Blessed and Glorious memory, by whose Decease the Crown is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary:

WE, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm . . . do now hereby with one voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart publish and proclaim that the High and Mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is now, by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of all Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith . . .

Something splendid, royal, eternal, and with obligation has come “solely and rightfully” to us as well.  Each believer in Christ Jesus upon the earth owns the distinction of an individual vocation before God.  We have not been proclaimed “High and Mighty” (at least not since our precocious childhood!,) but we are The Elect of God, The Epistle of Christ, a Royal Priesthood, The Bride of Christ.  These are just a very few of the emblems we wear … they look different as titles and honors, don’t they?

Elizabeth’s government could not know or be certain, they only hoped, that she might maintain the blossoming strength of the damaged British Isles and beyond, and represent the unity and continuance her father had evoked.  So, too, for us when we accede to royal privilege.  Who can know whether or not we will further the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ?  Will we ascend to our accession?  Will we love mercy and hate dishonest gain?  Will we humble ourselves beneath the mighty hand of God and truly discover what Spirit we’re “of”?   God knows.

We know what we were, but we pay notoriously little heed to what we are.  Heaven and earth will rejoice if we will leave our feckless past behind us and come up as we are bid, up to the throne of grace, there to receive grace and mercy to help, for ourselves and for others.  Souls do hang in the balance.  By His grace may we begin now not to say “later.”  No matter the hour on the clock of history’s culmination, the night is far spent, the day is close at hand.

No abdication, by the mercies of Christ!  If we were to survey the realms that fall within our borders – our families, our jobs, our cities – and determine to care for people and nations in the love of God, to pray for them, and praying to believe God for an outcome not in keeping with their shortcomings … or our own … what might be the result?

As Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, of the House of Windsor, British Royal Family, has “the legal and constitutional prerogatives and practices associated with that status,”* shall we acknowledge those honors to which we have acceded in our Lord?  Let’s take them to heart during the days ahead.

We prayerfully, humbly, and joyfully receive the great honor of belonging to The House of Prayer, Which is the Lord’s.  Amen.

Leave a comment today, if you please … tell us … which title of majesty means the most to you?  “Sheep of His Pasture”?  “Friend of God?”  Share your “Garter Sash” with us … more on that to come!

*Wikipedia, House of Windsor