GOD REIGNS

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GOD REIGNS

READ:  Psalm 93

Alleluia!  For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!  Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory.  Revelation 19:6-7

I remember well the shock and grief I felt in 1968 when Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles.  People everywhere, regardless of their political affiliation, were numb with grief and horror.  Coming so soon after the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy made it even more tragic.

Yet after Senator Kennedy’s funeral in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the walls echoed with the triumphant words of Handel’s Messiah:  “The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth … and He shall reign for ever and ever.”

These words do not suggest that God willed the assassination.  They are a triumphant affirmation that in spite of such events, God achieves all His good purposes.  People do things that anger and grieve Him.  But He is at work bringing good out of evil, light out of darkness, joy out of pain, order out of chaos, and life out of death.

In Psalm 93, the pounding waves of the seas that “have lifted up their voice” represents humanity in turmoil and opposition to God (v.3).  They sometimes seem to be winning the battle.  But the Lord is “mightier than the noise of  many waters” (v.4).  One day He will completely vanquish all opposition and usher in the  perfect eternal world He has promised us.  Our God reigns! Hallelujah!   HVL

The more clearly we see God’s sovereignty, the

less perplexed we are by man’s calamities.