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Here’s a Breaking News ALERT you won’t find on any news/media outlets these days: OUR GOD REIGNS!
“God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.” Psalm 47:8 Without doubt these are perilous and challenging days. Compassionate Christians everywhere are appropriately concerned about worldwide health pandemics and the hellish evil the devil has unmercifully unleashed upon nations, including the United States of America. Our world is on fire with hatred for fellow human beings. A spirit of fear, destruction and death roams the earth looking for victims to devour. Fueled by fear, the worldwide war on terror and racial/ethnic tensions have exploded into a fiery fury of panic that is paralyzing and petrifying people on every continent. News alert after alert has to do with what evil man is doing to man. The news is not good. People across the globe wonder if man will soon annihilate himself in a World War III scenario that is looming on the horizon of the human experience. As virulent viruses multiply, rockets are flying and people are dying, is there any hope? Is there anywhere to turn for help in this time of trouble? Yes there is. But it is not in the direction of the bad news of the news media. You and I find help and encouragement in discouraging times from the Good News found in the Word of God. With unmistakable clarity and an uplifting word of assurance, our scripture declares: GOD REIGNS AND HE IS AT HOME ON HIS HOLY THRONE! According to Webster reign means “to possess or exercise sovereign power, to be predominant or prevalent, to rule. The subject of our word reigns is God. The Almighty One is the One who possesses and exercises sovereign power that no man or nation can overrule. No earthly clan of man or any contingent of demons from hell can cross God’s border to ransack His Kingdom or kidnap His children. He is holy. His throne is holy. Nothing unholy can unseat His holiness. In other words, GOD RULES!!! Almighty God rules over the affairs of men and nations. He is in charge of His kingdom and universe. In times of terror and crisis, it is all too easy to think that man rules. Especially when evil men cross nation’s borders and slaughter innocent people. It happened in the Old Testament more than once. Remember the Midianites in Judges 6-8 who crossed Israel’s borders, devastated the people’s land and seemed to be in charge? They did not have the last word. God raised up Gideon as his deliverer and the Midianites were destroyed. Three hundred chosen warriors under “the valiant warrior’s” leadership slew 120,000 Midianites! Gideon gave God the glory for the miraculous victory over the menacing Midianites. God reigned and reined in the evil Midianites. Take heart Christian in these troubling times. Man does not rule over the affairs of men. God who made man does. He has a redemptive plan that is right on schedule. I have read the Book from cover to cover. As the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end (Revelation 21:6), God has the first and last word. That means He reigns! The people who acknowledge His Lordship will reign with Him forever! If your heart is tempted to grow faint these last days, stir up your faith in the God who reigns.
And most importantly of all JESUS CHRIST is KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS! (Revelation 19:11-16). Look again at what Paul says every human being will do one day. “Therefore, God also highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:9-11 Men’s knees will bow, not to men, but to Jesus Christ! Rise up Christian with great faith. Trust wholeheartedly in the God who reigns. God has always been in charge. The temporary rein of terror does not overthrow the permanent reign of God and His goodness to men. Pray for our lost and hurting world. Pray for protection of the innocent. Pray for wisdom for our world’s leaders. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (see Psalm 122:6). And remember that Jesus said all these things would happen (see Matthew 24:1-14) before He returns for the church. Thank you Heavenly Father that you rule and reign over our affairs! “The Lord will reign forever, Thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!” Psalm 146:10 “The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice! Let the many islands be glad.” Psalm 97:2 A Word For Your Week: Stand strong as you stand alongside the GOD WHO REIGNS!
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