A Little Princess

Many many times in my life have i been told that i am God's princess. At first i believed it as a young girl, then as i grew older i thought what a silly tale for someone to tell little girls. Yes i knew i was a child of God, but a princess, NO WAY! It didn't make sense to me anymore, i had a great relationship with God, but it just never seemed biblical to say or believe that i was actually God's princess. Still there was a longing in my heart, just a little piece hidden somewhere hoping it was all true. 

Well tonight as i was reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge they started to talk about being a princess. God's princess. I thought in my head blah blah blah, another author stuck in one of those "your God's princess" modes just to make us feel better...i think not. Then John wrote this a little part from the book A Little Princess "Whatever comes, cannot alter one thing. If i am a princess in rags and tatters, i can be a princess inside. it would be easy to be a princess if i were dressed in a cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it." And for some reason unknown to me, i teared up. I thought why do i long to be that kind of a princess? Why do i long to be called a princess? not one of those that have everything in the world, but a princess by the definition as being God's, the king of kings and the lord of lords daughter. 

And if He is a king and I am his daughter, then by all means i AM HIS princess. And that is what my heart had longed for all these years. To know that it was okay, it wasn't too girly or silly to think that. I think every girl out there longs somewhere deep inside to be called a princess, no matter who you are or what you have gone through, there is this longing. It's God saying "My daughter, my princess, you are beautiful and i love you." 

Men have a different understanding then we do when it comes to this. They have different needs, of course they don't want to be called princesses, so i think most men discourage the "typical" princess/beautiful/daughter thing that we as women talk so much about. they discourage this because i think just maybe they weren't built the way we were and they don't have the same longing inside of them, but i could be wrong because i am not a man. I do not blame men for maybe just some of them simply do now know any better. 

But what i do know is that I am a princess, not with any crown, or cape of gold, or nice castle, or even a prince, but i am God's princess, his daughter and he loves me and that is more than enough for me!