A Daughter of the King

I asked myself, “How do you want to be remembered?”
As a good wife?
As a good mother?
As a good NICU nurse? Think on these questions as they pertain to your life and occupation. Space is provided for notes as you read. Highlighted verses will be available within the margins for reference and will be taken from the various translations of the Bible. So, let us begin.
Anyone can be those things, but only you and I, as believers and followers of Jesus Christ, will be re-membered as daughters of the King!
As daughters of the King, we will be treated as Christ commands we treat others and as He treated others: with unconditional love and mercy, and as heirs to God’s kingdom.
Let us now begin the journey to become daughters of the King.

We are all born with an innate desire to be loved. After having worked as a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit for over thirty years, I can honestly say all infants, no matter the circum-stances surrounding their birth, have the same basic needs: nutrition, warmth, and most importantly love. On this we can all agree.

Where does this need or desire for love arise? As a follower of Jesus, I believe God designed us with a space specifically to be filled with His love. For each of us, this area may change its location at vari-ous times throughout our lives. Nevertheless, it remains open and ready to be filled. How do we fill it with God’s love in a permanent way?
● We confess all are sinners and understand we cannot follow enough rules or do enough good works to do away with our sins so that we may approach the presence of God (Romans 8:23).
● We accept Jesus Christ as the only Son of God, born of a virgin and sent to live as a man to minister to others, teach about this love, die for our sins, and defeat death through His resur-rection (John 3:16–17). We must humbly pray and ask Jesus to become our Lord and Savior.
● We daily take up His cross while repenting of our sins, meaning our minds do not want to think of them again, and we spread the story of Jesus to others (Luke 9:23; Mark 16:15–16).

I believe this area exists and demands to be filled. Most of us, as generations living in a world of in-stant gratification, attempt to fill it with worldly idols or gods. Food, medications (both legal and ille-gal), alcohol, media, worldly knowledge—these last for only a minute.

The area was not intended to be filled with these, so they are but a temporary space occupying re-lief—much like a gas bubble in an infant’s tummy: there is no nutritive value, and it provides no growth and leaves them miserable and hungry in a short time. Unless we as caregivers release that space and fill that tummy with what was intended to provide comfort and growth, the infant will cry and cry!

Now, where does that space reside in you? Only you can answer this. For me, it has relocated from my digestive system to the knowledge section of my brain to the pituitary gland within my brain (that exceedingly small, bothersome part that directs our sexual thoughts and desires). Can we say it follows a path directed by stages of development and maturity?

The bottom line is only when I filled it completely with God’s love—meaning I placed God on the throne of my heart by developing a relationship with Jesus—could I say I was truly satisfied.

What does Jesus tell us He is?
• the Bread of Life; we will hunger no more (John 6:35)
• the Water that quenches all thirst (John 4:13–14)
• the Way, the Truth, and the Life; He is the only pathway that will lead us to God (John 14:6)

By confessing myself a sinner, accepting Jesus as my Savior, and repenting of my sins, I am an heir to God’s kingdom and a daughter of the King (John 1:12; Titus 3:7).