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Why the Queen doesn't need a passport


Note: In September 2022, Queen Elizabeth died. This article will remain unedited, with the same principle now being applied to her successor, George VI.


The Queen of England has unique status as a British person. For one thing, because all passports are issued in her name, and under her authority, it is seen as superfluous for her to have one, and so she doesn't. "I'm the bloody queen" is a perfectly valid statement for her to make at any airport. They can't stop her from flying.


Does this not sound logical? As the highest authority in England, to what authority should she submit? But of course, in theory, even the queen is subject to a higher power. Outside of her own realm, she has no power. But here is the thing about God: He is never outside of His own realm.


If it is logical that the Queen submits to no higher authority in her own realm, is it not even more logical that God should submit to no higher authority in His? How, then, can we rightfully question what He does? We can't even begin to comprehend His actions. Everything He does, He does for His purposes, and He owes us no explanation. We can't hold Him accountable, He holds us accountable.


Yet, laughably, we do try. Look at Adam, our father. When he sinned, he said to God "The woman, whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." (Genesis 3:12, emphasis mine). God, I sinned, but it's kind of your fault, y'know? Like, you knew she was going to tempt me, you still put her here, so... yeah.


Except no. We are the sinners. God doesn't tempt us to sin (James 1:13). We can't say "God, why did you..." God doesn't owe us an explanation for anything. Why did you put that tree in the garden in the first place? Why did you create Satan? Why did you make Eve so trusting? These are not questions to which we have any right of an answer. We can ask them, sure, but God owe us no answers. God owes us nothing. Let us therefore be content bowing to our King, whose laws we have violated many times, and yet whose grace covers those violations and separates us from them as far as the East is from the West.

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