"The Lord reigns...." (Psalm 97 & Psalm 99, verses 1)
"The Lord Jesus Christ reigns." Psalm 97 follows with, "Let the earth rejoice," and 99 with, "Let the peoples tremble!" All, "the peoples," including the Church, need to do both. There is much of the former, little of the latter.
Another 170 hostages were taken today, war rages in the Middles East, Arab-Islamists renewed their fight in Israel, even in Tel Aviv, but Jesus Christ, "The Lord reigns." Some say, "Well, it does not look as though, "The Lord reigns." Of course, to those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to those who are not full of His Words, the world looks like chaos, no order, no one shaping anything. But "history is headed toward a dramatic climax." Global events, just as your life and mine, are in "the River of God." We are like the ride of a local amusement park; the cars are on a track, but have room on either side to bounce back and forth. You have to steer with precision to keep the car from banging into the sides. Mankind has been banging into the "sides" of history, the banks of the river, from the beginning, but as the Lord Jesus Christ says to the sea, "this far you may come, but no further,..here your proud waves must stop," He so says to humanity and global events. "The Lord reigns."
No matter what is going on in the earth, the Lord God tells you and me, "....Keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time-- He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen." The, "unapproachable light...no man has seen or can see," is the, "light," of the Godhead. Only the person born of the Spirit can "see" anything of the Living Triune God, His Church, His Kingdom, His Purposes, "His ways past finding out." Life cannot make sense to anyone who rejects Jesus Christ and His Words. Such people will continually engaged in the same endless, argumentative, aimless, confused chatter as the cable news' endless speculation on the "whys" of global events. You and I, however, need not.
"The Lord Jesus Christ reigns!"
Father, in Jesus' Name, I do, "rejoice," and, "tremble," at Your reign. Amen.
"The Lord Jesus Christ reigns." Psalm 97 follows with, "Let the earth rejoice," and 99 with, "Let the peoples tremble!" All, "the peoples," including the Church, need to do both. There is much of the former, little of the latter.
Another 170 hostages were taken today, war rages in the Middles East, Arab-Islamists renewed their fight in Israel, even in Tel Aviv, but Jesus Christ, "The Lord reigns." Some say, "Well, it does not look as though, "The Lord reigns." Of course, to those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to those who are not full of His Words, the world looks like chaos, no order, no one shaping anything. But "history is headed toward a dramatic climax." Global events, just as your life and mine, are in "the River of God." We are like the ride of a local amusement park; the cars are on a track, but have room on either side to bounce back and forth. You have to steer with precision to keep the car from banging into the sides. Mankind has been banging into the "sides" of history, the banks of the river, from the beginning, but as the Lord Jesus Christ says to the sea, "this far you may come, but no further,..here your proud waves must stop," He so says to humanity and global events. "The Lord reigns."
No matter what is going on in the earth, the Lord God tells you and me, "....Keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time-- He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen." The, "unapproachable light...no man has seen or can see," is the, "light," of the Godhead. Only the person born of the Spirit can "see" anything of the Living Triune God, His Church, His Kingdom, His Purposes, "His ways past finding out." Life cannot make sense to anyone who rejects Jesus Christ and His Words. Such people will continually engaged in the same endless, argumentative, aimless, confused chatter as the cable news' endless speculation on the "whys" of global events. You and I, however, need not.
"The Lord Jesus Christ reigns!"
Father, in Jesus' Name, I do, "rejoice," and, "tremble," at Your reign. Amen.
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
