Imagine that you were in big car wreck and due to head trauma, you lost your memory for a while. Perhaps you couldn't remember your spouse, if your relationship was good or bad, or even how you met. In the process of relearning about your life, you memorized certain dates - like your anniversary. Until your memory was restored, all you had was a head knowledge of a pivotal day in your life. It was a factual day, a big day, but with no recollection... just a day.
Stare down at your wedding ring. What would it mean to you in that situation?
When the prodigal son came back home, the Father immediately put a robe around his shoulders and placed his ring on his finger. He restored his authority immediately. Wow! What do you think that might have meant to the wayward son?
As Christians, we walk around with that ring on, but we really do not understand the implications. It's as though we have amnesia, unable to associate what we have with how we got it. The ring is an object with no real significance in our lives and it effects how we live.
The devil knows what that ring means. All of his host know what that ring means. But until you step into the realm of authority that the ring signifies, nobody has to respect the fact that it's on your finger and that you are a child of the King.
What is the result of living with title only? Powerlessness. Just ask Nebuchadnezzar. He was given a form of amnesia of his own because of pride:
Daniel 4:33-36 LITV
(33) The same hour the thing was fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and he ate the grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
(34) And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to the heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High. And I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule from generation to generation.
(35) And all those living in the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will among the army of Heaven, and among those living in the earth. And no one is able to strike His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?
(36) At that time my reason returned to me, and the glory of my kingdom, my majesty, and my brightness returned to me. And my advisers and my nobles sought to me. And I was reestablished in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.
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