Today's Scripture Reading (January 29, 2023): 2 Chronicles 23
Maybe one of the most
surprising things that have come out of the Sussex's drip-drip of revelations
about the Firm, what they call the business aspects of the Royal Family, is
that Harry believed into his young adult years that his mother was still alive.
She had gone into hiding after the accident and was waiting for the appropriate
day to make her return. Or maybe she was captured by forces within the Firm who
believed that she was a destabilizing force on the Royal Family. Whatever the
reason, it seems that Harry really thought that one day his mother would
return, and this fantasy concerning his mother continued long past his
childhood.
Maybe, it isn't surprising. I
can't imagine what it must have been like for the young Harry to have to deal
with the death of his mother, especially in such a horrible disaster. What was
it like to believe that the last thing his mother saw with her human eyes was
the paparazzi flashbulbs trying to get a picture of her dying body? It is not
something that I would wish on anyone. And it should give us all pause on the
things we allow our eyes to see. Harry blames the paparazzi, but it is not
their fault. Not really. The responsibility really lies with us, you and me. If
we didn't buy up everything Royal, there would have been no market for pictures
of the Royal Family. And maybe that is actually the change that we need to
make. We have to stop buying what the paparazzi and the rest of the gossip
mongers are selling. I might be one of the few that has not watched the Harry and
Megan's Netflix expose, nor have I read Harry's book "Spare." And I
have no plan to read Harry's book and the rumored upcoming sequel. I did not
watch the Oprah interview, not because I was not interested, but because sanity
has to start somewhere. Suppose a portion of what Harry says is true. In that
case, the moral thing is to begin shutting it down and to be content with the
moments that the Royals are willing to share with us. We must recognize that we
will only ever know a portion of what is true about Britain's Royal Family,
just as anyone in our sphere of influence will only ever see a part of our
lives. There are juicy things about our lives that people might like to know,
but it is none of their business. And what we know about the rich and famous is
already too much.
When Athaliah became queen,
she executed everyone who had any right to the throne of Judah. It is possible,
early on, that the people wondered if there might be someone that they Athaliah
had missed. Was there someone that could rescue them from the evil reign of
Athaliah? But as time passed, they began to realize that Athaliah was their
only reality.
Could you imagine the shock
if Harry was right, and Diana had shown up a decade after her death, regardless
of why she had disappeared? It must have been a very similar experience on the
day that the Priest Jehoiada presented Joash to the people. They thought
everyone was dead, but suddenly a seven-year-old boy threw everything the
people thought they knew into disarray. There was someone else who had a right
to sit on the throne of David, and this person was actually a descendant of
David, something that Athaliah never was.
It was a great day, a day when
the unlikely dreams of the people came true.
Tomorrow's Scripture Reading: 2 Chronicles
24
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