The queens and kings have positions, power, and authority and the crown symbolizes their status. Topped with rare, expensive, sparkling jewels, crowns have a unique attraction uncommon in everyday life. Only certain people have the authority to wear them. Did you know that when we have a relationship with God, he crowns the most common of us with beautiful and priceless crowns? They far exceed the most exquisite and expensive ones of the wealthiest monarchs throughout history.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity,
Psalm 103:4
who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
He Crowns Us With Steadfast Love and Mercy
Humans will go to great lengths in search of love, but God crowns us lavishly in his love. Check out the Amplified version of Psalm 103:4. The jewels on royal crowns are the most costly, beautiful jewels, but the crowns we get are literally priceless. Mercy and love cannot be bought, sold, or earned, but how humans crave and desire them. We attempt to fill the void with anything, but only a holy, all-knowing, and merciful God can truly grant us the love, forgiveness, and mercy we need. He tenderly bestowed them on anyone who receives him regardless of status, popularity, its economic background. We only need to come to him to receive this crown of steadfast love and mercy.
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[a]and crowned him with glory and honor.
Psalm 8:4-5
He Crowns Us with Glory and Honor
We are crowned with glory and honor in relation to the rest of creation. We are honored because we can speak, have written language, walk upright, and have opposable thumbs, but we have the authority over the earth through the way he made us. God made us with many praiseworthy differences from the animals. He created us in His image, with a mind, will, emotions, and a spirit meant to commune with God. Even with all that, compared to an all-powerful, all-seeing, knowing, and intelligent God, we are so small. He didn’t have to create, love, or even pay attention to us, but he did. He also made a path to bestow the crown of loving mercy, glory, and honor on us.
For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.
Psalm 149:4
He Crowns us with Victory
It says in Psalm 149:4 that he crowns the humble with victory. I used to subscribe to the wrong definition of humility that went around the church for quite some time. Being humble isn’t thinking of feeding a negative self-image, or downplaying your achievements and successes. Humility is putting God in his rightful place as the all-powerful Lord. The second part is seeing ourselves as part of a human race, and loving others as we have received love from God. No one is more or less valued or loved by God. This is the humility God rewards with victory. When we are humble enough to ask him for his help, he is in charge of the results, and those results yield a win. When we are in this posture, he crowns us with victory.
Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Becoming An Eternal Royal
At age 96, Queen Elizabeth II has sat on the throne of the UK for 70 years. She attained her position through a bloodline and maintained it through her devotion and discipline. None of us will ever wear that official crowns she wears. When she steps from earth to heaven, those crowns stay behind and are given to her successor. The crowns we get from God accompany us to eternity. We are grafted into a royal bloodline when we take Jesus’ blood sacrifice as our only way to God. We then become eternal royals and qualified to receive heavenly crowns. It’s good to have worldly goals and blessings, but as an earthly crown, it’s impossible to take them to heaven. On the earth, God gives us eternal crowns that transcend this earth and follows us to heaven.
