The King's Daughter—Part 1—Back to Eternity

Ramona Havranek

Psalm 45

This series of articles draws on my journey of discovering God's eternal love, which set me free. It discusses how God considers His daughters precious and valuable. I wrote and arranged these lessons for a women's conference hosted by our church. This study centers on the following Scripture passage.

Kings’ daughters are among
Your honorable women;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.
Listen, O daughter,
Consider and incline your ear;
Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
The rich among the people will seek your favor.
The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace
Her clothing is woven with gold.
She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the King’s palace.

— Psalm 45:9-15

Sometimes, one of the most significant challenges for women is believing they are loved. Many of us have spent much of our lives trying to convince ourselves that we are truly loved through the drama of our relationships.

On this leg of my journey, I have concluded that true, eternal, everlasting love can only be realized through a relationship with our Father in Heaven through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Some of us have entered into that relationship but have not truly understood our position as King's Daughters or fully grasped the emotional depth of His love. This understanding is God's will in Christ Jesus.

... that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

— Ephesians 3:17

"King's daughters"

Our study begins with this statement from Psalm 45.

Kings’ daughters ...

To be addressed as a "daughter" comes with acceptance, affection, and belonging. These qualities are what many women desperately want but find so elusive in the natural world. Paul addresses this issue in his letter to the Ephesians.

... just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
— Ephesians 1:4

He chose us, adopted us, and made us accepted!! He has noticed us, wanted us, and received us.

I recently attended a Youth Event with some local teens, and the guest speaker observed that every 3-year-old girl wants to be a princess. He said he believes every girl is born knowing she is royalty and searches her whole life for confirmation.

We were born to know the King of Kings. We once knew Him in a garden before we fell in Eve. Built into the DNA of our desires, passed down from her, is the remembrance of a position we once held and for which we so desperately long again. God planted and preserved His eternal purpose and plan for us deep within the very core of our being, in our hearts.

... He has put eternity in their hearts ...
— Ecclesiastes 3:11 "Eden
... Has there ever been a human who has not, at some point, sensed a yearning for such a place? From deep within us comes the intuition that this unsatisfactory set-up of ours is not the way things were meant to be. Longing for Eden is not only an escapist fantasy; it is in our nature. God meant us for better than this"

— wordalive.org devotion for 2012/01/03

A Lesson From Trout

Trout's behavior is an excellent illustration of this. Trout are anadromous fish, meaning "running upwards." Anadromous fish swim against the flow of a stream or river to return to the place where they were spawned. These fish are so determined to return to where they began that they will jump waterfalls. They instinctively remember where they came from. So it is with us. We, too, instinctively know that we were once royalty, created in His image.

And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

— Acts 17:26

The verse above speaks more importantly to who we should seek rather than to what we should seek. We seek a person rather than a place or position.

... for in Him we live and move and have our being ...
— Acts 17:28

A princess's position is revealed only by being the daughter of a king. It is highly significant that we can see God, "The King of Kings," as our father through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

... the LORD sits as King for ever.
— Psalm 29:10

When we fell into the garden on Eve, we lost our positions and the most vital relationship to our eternal existence. Sin had separated us from Him, blinded us, and distorted the image of God within us. Our descent downstream led us further and further from God's loving desire and intentions for us. Now we seek to be adopted back into our previous relationship and status with Him.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
— Romans 8:15

The Bible tells us that when we repent, confess our sins, turn to God, and recognize that the Lamb of God gave Himself to bear our sins and die on our behalf, we are restored to the eternal purposes, positions, and provisions we once held.

If you have never considered a relationship with Christ, now may be a great time to do so before we move into the beauty and benefits of being His beloved child.

"Without Christ, we were out of harmony with God; life was all about self, and we were driven to use people, things, and circumstances to meet our needs. In Christ we are in harmony with God; for us as believers, life should be all about the One who has already fully met our needs"
— Kenneth Boa, "Conformed to His Image"

For those of us who have already done so, we are heading back upstream to the purposes and intentions He has had for us all along. That purpose is to be dearly loved children of His (Eph 5:1).

This journey will require renewing our minds in the revelation of His truth, sustaining a relationship of faith in Him, and prayer. In doing this, we return to the source of the living, eternal waters from which we were spawned, so we can comprehend that love and return to where we came from, so the image of the glory of God might shine through us once again. We have forgotten who we are and where we have come from.

"The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery [including] the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."
— Colossians 1:26-27

May He reveal to us what has been hidden from our eyes. The truth is that we are forgiven, noticed, wanted, and, most of all, loved.