Fulfilling Your Royal Duties – On Mindset Shifts and Serving Yah Wholeheartedly

My son, Noble, who’s only two years old, has been attending a weekly kids workout and mentality bootcamp. But since he’s so young, parents are required to participate. These activities range from walking him through the obstacle courses, helping him with the sign language skills, or leading him in the exercises. Sometimes, mommy gets very tired with these little bootcamps! Heck, they feel more like refinement for me, than for him most days.

This morning, I really didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to do anything today besides lay in my bed and wallow in my self-pity. Mentally, some days I’m like King Solomon, echoing Ecclesiastese:

Life is vain, there’s no purpose except worshiping Yahuah, everything is pointless… Being a human is soooo hard, blah, blah, blah.

But I chose to get up at 6am anyway, shower, and open my Bible. Yah led me to Luke 19, where Yashuah shares the Parable of the Ten Talents! (Luke 19:11-27)

This is where we read about the three servants who were given money by the King and told to multiply it for him… the wicked servant, who was only given 1 talent, chose to bury it instead of investing it. When the King returned and realized what he’d done, he rebuked the servant, took his 1 talent away to give to another, and ordered an execution for all the other people who didn’t want the King to reign.

I’ve read this parable for as long as I’ve been reading the Bible, and it never landed for me like it did this morning. I realized that

1. the King had given the servant a clear command which he disobeyed
2. There were people who didn’t see the King as worthy of ruling over the nation
3. The servant’s actions were a direct result of him being one of those people who didn’t see the King as worthy

Of course the servant’s actions are a problem. But his actions would not be possible if there wasn’t already rebellion in his heart. Everything starts in the heart.

For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Proverbs 23:7

I found myself asking, is my heart really with Yahuah… or do I see him as unworthy to be Lord and Master?

This is the ultimate question we must ask ourselves for the rest of our lives.

Is God worthy of being King, even when we don’t understand, even if we disagree, even when we are tired and worn out with our royal duties?

The Word says “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23-24

The Word also says we are a Royal Priesthood (1 Peter 2:9). Royal implies of the House of Judah, the ruling class. Priesthood implies the House of Levi, the only tribe ordained to usher the Temple and Rituals. So if I am a royal priestess, my job is to do righteousness in servitude in all that I do, for the glory of The King.

And if He has established me as wife, mother, homemaker, then these are my royal duties. Not every servant in the court is a jester, or royal advisor, or general of the military. The people that keep the castle going day to day, are the King’s cooks because the King must eat, the royal musicians because the King must rejoice, the royal maid staff because the King must not live in filth.

My whole “life is vain, being a human is just being cursed forever” mentality got a major overhaul this morning. Because I realized that mentality is a symptom of feeling like a peasant, instead of knowing I am a Royal Priestess.

My husband noticed this morning that I was not preparing to take our son, Noble, to his bootcamp. And when he reminded me about it, I groaned to myself. Nobody likes being forced to workout. Then I heard Yahuah say, “But this is your royal duty, to raise this prince!”

Whew! OMG I got it together quickly. And the imagery of myself taking a Prince to his royal activities actually gave me some energy and joy today, oddly. It turned from “I have to do this…” into “I get to do this!” Mentality is everything. That’s why the Scripture says,

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Romans 12:2-3

We are to think soberly, and that means having our minds renewed with His Word.

What are the royal duties you find yourself dreading? How could a mindset shift help you overcome that dread?

And more importantly, do you see Yahuah as worthy of your work, effort, focus and sacrifices? Because He is, after all, The King of Kings!

I published a podcast episode about this, and shared a free devotional to go along with it 🙂