The Royal Color
“Only let your conversation (behavior) be as it becometh the gospel of Christ” (Philippians 1:27).
The story is told of one of the Dauphins (heir to the French throne) who had an English tutor. This teacher found his princely pupil very difficult to handle. Proud and haughty, and impatient of restraint, the young man submitted unwillingly to schoolroom restrictions, and his foreign instructor was at his wits’ end to know how to deal with him. One morning as his pupil came to him the tutor placed upon his jacket a purple rosette, saying, “This is the royal color, and as you wear it I want you to remember that you are the Crown Prince of France, and that it is your duty to always behave in a princely way. If you are willful or disobedient I shall, of course, not attempt to punish you, as that is not my business, but I shall simply point to the purple, and you will understand what I mean, that I do not feel your behavior is worthy of a princely lad.”
Let’s remember at all times that we are a “son…an heir of God through Christ” (Galatians 4:7).
