When the world keeps spinning in directions we wish it wouldn’t, and those in power act in ways that cause nothing but misery for those who want only to get on with their lives, it’s good to know that it is God who is in ultimate control.
Because whilst it couldn’t have been easy for Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary to make the four-day trek to Bethlehem to satisfy the whim of a Roman Emperor, it was still a journey that had been ordained by the God who had foretold centuries before that His only begotten Son would be born there. [Micah 5:2]
And it’s the same today.
Whilst world leaders like to think that they’re the ones who are in control, they’re not. God is. And we should not therefore make the mistake of putting our hope in those who imagine they have power any more than we should despair of those who attempt to wield it. Because irrespective of the country they represent, God will use all world leaders as a means of grace, or a means of judgment, as He, and He alone, sees fit.
So remember, ‘the king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will’. [Proverbs 21:1]
We are not in the hands of weak men who cannot be trusted – rather we belong to an almighty and ever faithful God who can. And whilst ‘some trust in horses and some in chariots, we trust in the name of the LORD our God’. [Psalm 20:7]
And can confidently continue to do so all the days of our life, no matter where He leads.
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oh such wise words , the world looks such an unstable place at present only God can resolve the mess that man has brought about on this planet! Rod
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And having promised to do so, that’s what he surely will!
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