It’s all you can do to keep track of work schedules, sports practices, and summer activities for your family, let alone stay connected with friends or help community causes. An article here, news story there might keep you informed about important happenings elsewhere, but that may be all you have time for!
It would be a full-time job to keep up with national news and global events. One thirty-minute segment of local news has me overwhelmed!
The other night, I was watching the resounding, repeating report … Shootings here, individual hospitalized there, parade or protest downtown, new medical findings. And that was just the preview! Mind whirling, I didn’t know what to think.
But on second thought, I do know. The God I serve is in charge! The Bible says He is King of all the earth (Psalm 47:7).
“O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.”
– 2 Chronicles 20:6
He appoints nations to rise up and causes them to fall down (Job 12:23). He counsels leaders and observes inhabitants (Psalm 33:11, 13-15). Indeed, “God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne” (Psalm 47:8).
In fact, all human establishments and governances originate from Him.
“He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.”
– Acts 17:26
Romans 13:1 further clarifies that all governing authorities are instituted by God. We are called to dutifully submit in accordance with God’s law.
“All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the LORD, and He rules over the nations.”
– Psalm 22:27-28
Even kings of pagan empires will bow to God’s sovereignty, as Nebuchadnezzar did in Daniel 4.
“His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and He does according to His will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand or say to Him, ‘What have you done?’”
– Verses 34b-35
God’s Provision: At the end of the day, “the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth” (Psalm 47:2). And, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom He has chosen as His heritage!” (Psalm 33:12). In justice, God honors the upright who follow Him.
Word of the Week: Paramountcy. A word I newly learned, meaning supreme power or authority. God owns the place of highest importance.
All that occurs, both in hometowns and halfway across the world, is resolutely directed by the hand of God.
Abby
