"Your throne was established long ago; You are from eternity." (Psalm 93:2, NIV)
If a person cannot take great comfort and peace in the declaration of our text, I doubt they will find it anywhere. The reign of Jesus Christ, "was established long ago...." And if one wonders how long ago, the answer is short and powerful, "....from eternity."
The world is on a collision course with judgment. What we are witnessing in all parts of the globe is what Isaiah prophesied over 2700 years ago, "The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered....The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant....So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest." And to the cynic who says, "Well, that was 2700 years ago? You could say that about any generation." Perhaps, but history seems to move as a gigantic front loader, picking up mankind's debris along the way, keeping record, heading toward the judgment, "against (for) that Day." Notice in the Isaiah passage that it is all people of, "The earth", not just Israel or America or China or.....
Yet, those who have surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ moment by moment, living a heart of repentance, "Looking unto Jesus," are a forgiven and overcoming People. The forgiveness of the Cross is as all our Lord Jesus is and does for us, "long ago...from eternity." The moment we received Jesus into our hearts, we "stepped into" all Jesus is, His Person, His Righteousness, Eternal Reign, His Eternal Work. "Thy Kingdom is a Kingdom of all ages," and we "entered" His, "Kingdom of all ages," we stepped into eternity when we opened the "door" and Jesus entered into fellowship with us and we with Him, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me." This is a two-way, "door," my friend. It is as though Jesus steps into this time/space world to come into us, and we step out of it into eternity, into the Eternal One. We opened the door to Jesus and Jesus opened His Door to us, the Door into His, "established long ago...from eternity. Do not be fearful or stressed about what is going on around us and even beside us. It is only a, "twinkling of an eye," to those, "established long ago...from eternity.
Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You for coming to me in my narrow time/space world, and taking me to Your, "Long ago...from eternity." Amen.
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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
