Isaiah 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

When you get a summons to court it is for one reason only, someone is in trouble. It might be you or someone you know. You are either going to be accused or asked to testify. That is pretty much it. No one comes to court because it’s a pleasant thing to do.

Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

Not so with the courts of heaven from the opening verses of Isaiah. I ask because of this one phrase, “who has required this”. In the courts of an earthly king we are not granted an audience with the king without a summons to court. The king summons you. You don’t get to just walk on in.

By what authority do you enter God’s courts?

Colossians 3:1-4 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

I’m already there.

Our authority comes from being in Christ. It is not so much a coming and going as versed in Job 1 where the angels come and go from heaven to earth. They are not in Christ. We hold a unique role in His Kingdom, dual citizenship. While we walk this earth on our sojourn, we carry the rights of citizenship to our city, state, nation. Being in Christ we are citizens of that heavenly realm. We have rights because by faith we are in Christ. We can and do come and go freely without a summons.

Are you a Kingdom citizen in Christ?