THE KING’S NURSE
Royalty by Loyalty Footstool Devotional
Tuesday, 5th March, 2024
1 Kings 1:1-4 AMP - Now King David was old, advanced in years; they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm. 2 So his servants said to him, “LET A YOUNG VIRGIN BE FOUND FOR MY LORD THE KING AND LET HER ATTEND HIM AND BECOME HIS NURSE; LET HER LIE AGAINST YOUR CHEST, SO THAT MY LORD THE KING MAY FEEL WARM.” 3 So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 The girl was very beautiful; and SHE BECAME THE KING’S NURSE and served him, BUT THE KING WAS NOT INTIMATE WITH HER.
One of the highest honours the Lord can place on your life is to call you to become a king’s servant.
In the royal home of Russia’s last Tsar Nicholas II and Queen Alexandra( of the early 20th century), when after filling their bough with four daughters and a son who was to arrive sick with hemophilia, there came a need for a royal nurse who would take care of the children especially because the Tsarina Alexandra also grew weak through last pregnancy. Margaretta Eagar, an Irish Nanny, was found and recommended to be a servant in the king’s courts. Before her “higher call”, she was a nurse in Belfast( capital of Northern Ireland) and had also served as a matron in a girls’ orphanage.
Through your beautiful service to the Lord in your secret life of worship, God can cause earthly kings to take note of you and call you into their service. This is one of ways God honours His children. You can expect to be recommended for higher works of service in the house of God as you walk in love to the Lord today, in your secret life of worship and faithfulness in service.
Abishag the Shunammite was found and brought to the king after a search was made throughout the whole of Israel’s territory. She was to be that beautiful girl who would sit by the king and nurse him in his illness. She did everything for him, except become intimate with him. When you are called into the king’s courts, your loyalty to the royal quarters will demand that you do not go too deep into certain things. You must respect boundaries. You must learn not be a loose talker, saying and telling everything you see in the intimate places of the palace. You must have a sealed mouth, not an “ okro” mouth, spilling out any and everything you see happening in the deep places. To beautiful does not mearey mean to be beautiful in your outlook, but more importantly, you must have a way of seeing beauty in everything around you, instead of complaining about everything or wanting to know so you can go and tell scoffers and mockers. You must have a certain fear and reverence that makes you serve in the courts happily, never too inquisitive to go uninvited into the inner chambers or tell whatever happens there to the public should you get to see anything there. Ask the Lord to make you a really beautiful person in the way you see things, not just in how people see you. True beauty is in how you see things, and not in how you are seen per se.
In Margaretta Eagar’s memoir of 1906, she is noted to have left out many sensitive topics of the life in the royal house that seemed even to be known by the public. For example she left out the matter of the sickness of the Russian prince, Alexei. She highlighted all the fond memories of her care for the princesses, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, calling them “my” children. Even after her six years’ work in the palace, she is not found as one with any recorded interview with any journalist telling of any secrets in the palace till her death in 1939. She worked in the palace courts, and was happy not to go spill any beans of any secret royal drama she may have witnessed while working there.
Psalm 65:4 AMP - BLESSED IS THE ONE WHOM YOU CHOOSE AND BRING NEAR TO DWELL IN YOUR COURTS. We will be filled with the goodness of Your house, Your holy temple.
Many blessings await you.
