Psalm 93:1-2 ESV
“The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is
robed; he has put on strength as his belt.
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Your throne is established from of old;
you are from
everlasting.”
God is absolutely sovereign over all that he has made. He is
still on the throne! Amen! Our Lord God Jesus reigns supreme. He is still King!
He is not weak. He is still all powerful and all knowing. Nothing escapes his
notice. Nothing in all the earth goes under his radar. He knows all that is
going on behind closed doors. And, he will act when the time is right.
Nothing overtakes God. Nothing thwarts his plans and his purposes.
He has reasons for all that he allows. Yet, he is not unsympathetic to our
cause. But, he allows things in our lives for his purposes, to make us who he wants
us to be, to conform us to his likeness, to purify us, to make us holy, and to
bring us to maturity in Christ, our Lord.
Psalm 93:3 ESV
“The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
the floods have
lifted up their voice;
the floods lift
up their roaring.”
We have a foe. He goes by the name Satan (or the devil).
Sometimes he is called Lucifer. In the book of Revelation, he is referred to as
a dragon. In Genesis he was in the form of a serpent. And he is against God, against
Jesus Christ, against the true gospel of Christ, and he is against those of us
who are the Lord’s servants and messengers.
And, he has evil spirits and evil humans who do his bidding.
And, they also work against us and for him. And, some of these evil humans are
in positions of world power and rule. They are kings or queens, presidents,
prime ministers, governors, mayors, congressmen and women, senators, CEOs of
corporations, bankers, and pastors of church congregations, etc.
And, they are indeed lifting up their voices, and they are
roaring against the people of the world, and against sovereign nations, and
against followers of Jesus Christ who are the true church. And, you can read
about it in the news, and on social media, and on blogs, and on various internet
sites.
And, you can see it and hear it on TV programs, on news
shows, and on talk shows, and the like. But what you need to hear and to see
may not be what is seemingly obvious, but what is hidden. So, don’t take it all
at face value. Pray for much spiritual discernment! Mind manipulation is real!
There is a barrage of all kinds of messages, many of which
are intended to make people afraid, to confuse them, to get them angry and
upset, and to get them fighting with one another over some things that aren’t
even real.
For, their goal is to divide and conquer. And, so they throw
more and more things out there for the public’s consumption that ignites division.
And, so we have to not believe everything we see, or that we think we are
seeing, for anything can be faked (just think Hollywood). And, we have to stop
believing everything we hear or that we read, for there are multitudes of liars
and deceivers among us who are trying to lead us astray.
And, understand that Satan’s servants will disguise
themselves as servants of righteousness. So, they could even be those who are
preaching holiness and righteous living, in order to lead us to follow those
who are truly antichrist, but who are masquerading as servants of righteousness
or as sympathizers of Christians and of the church. For, Satan is going to try
to make you feel that he is on your side so that he can lure you to
destruction.
So, pay attention carefully to what these people in the public
are saying. Pay attention to where their true loyalties lie. And, examine those
carefully in prayer before the Lord, seeking God’s face for truth – his truth.
For, the devil is very clever. And, he knows how to deceive, and how to
manipulate naïve minds into believing whatever he tells them. So, seek the
counsel of God so that you don’t jump on the bandwagons of deceiving forces.
Psalm 93:4-5 ESV
“Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than
the waves of the sea,
the Lord on
high is mighty!
Your decrees are very trustworthy;
holiness befits
your house,
O Lord,
forevermore.”
But, praise the Lord, our God is mightier than any of these
masqueraders of righteousness. Our God is stronger than any foe that would come
against us. He is more powerful than any global powers that may be trying to
take us captive to do their will. And, his voice is above all these roaring
voices.
He is mightier than anything this world can throw at us.
And, so we never have cause to live in fear. We have no reason to fear anything
that may come our way.
But this doesn’t mean we will be protected from bad things.
For, he promises us that suffering is part of our walks of faith in Jesus
Christ. He promises us that we will be hated, rejected, and persecuted for
righteousness’ sake. And, while we live on this earth, we will have pain,
sorrow, and sickness. That is just part of being human. Yet, we should walk in
wisdom, but we are not to live in fear. There is a difference.
Yet, as things in this life continue to get crazier and
crazier, and when we don’t understand it all, or why things have to go the way
they are, or what our responses should be to our situations, we need to call on
God for wisdom. But then we need to listen to his counsel, and then heed it.
And, we need to know that not everything is what it appears to be. For, if we
don’t see that, we are prime for being deceived.
In all of the junk that is going down in the world, though,
we must remember that God is still sovereign. He is still in control. Nothing
can thwart his purposes. He has this handled. So, we need to trust him
completely. We need to trust his word, too, for he is completely trustworthy!
He is the only one who is!! He will do what he said he would do.
And, truly he is looking out for what is best for us, as he
defines best. For, his goal for us is that we walk in holiness, in purity of
devotion to him, that we forsake our sins and our idols, and that we follow him
in obedience. So, he will do what is necessary to get his people to live for
him and no longer for themselves. So, when it gets even crazier, TRUST HIM!
Bow
the Knee
Chris Machen and Mike Harland
When the path grows dim and our
questions have no answers, turn to Him.
Bow the knee; Trust the heart of your
Father when the answer goes beyond what you can see.
Bow the knee; Lift your eyes toward
heaven and believe the One who holds eternity.
And when you don’t understand the
purpose of His plan,
In the presence of the King, bow the
knee.
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