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‘He That Sitteth in the Heavens Shall Laugh…’

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Scanning the nooze this morning, I felt a need to revisit Psalm 2–which also brought this 1871 hymn to mind, Christ Shall Have Dominion.

It’s getting bad out there. The ungodly are running wild, nothing seems to restrain them. But God is watching carefully, and here’s where the psalm comes in:

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. (Verses 1-4)

The Lord is laughing at them–at their vain words, their pretenses, their schemes for a global government with themselves in charge. They are nothing. They are pygmies who call themselves giants. The Lord will give His Son, His anointed, all power in heaven and on earth; and He will break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

We must not lose heart! Christ, not they, shall have dominion. This is what we as Christians must believe. God will keep His promises, every last one of them. He has blessed us by allowing us to enter into His labors with Him. We may fail from time to time, but He will not fail us.

When will that happen? We don’t know; God knows. There are Christian men and women not yet born who will do great things. Our job is to do what we can and never, never, never give in to the wicked.

And when God stops laughing, let the wicked beware. Christ’s Kingdom is already among us… working, working, working… for and until He regenerates His whole creation.

‘When Truth Stumbles in the Street’ (Isaiah 59:14)

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Isaiah | Art UK

The Prophet Isaiah

My friend and editor Susan this morning reminded me of a Bible verse that I didn’t recognize at first, because I’m used to the King James Version. Let me quote it from the KJV:

“And judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” In some other translations, we read “truth has stumbled in the street.”

If that doesn’t describe the trying and distressing time we’re living in today, I don’t know what does.

But we are called to be God’s servants, soldiers of the cross who follow Christ our king; and this we must do, in every way we can.

Sometimes it seems we can’t do much, if anything at all. Who are we, ordinary men and women, to oppose a vast, ungodly power structure?

We are servants of the Living God; that’s who. Like those who followed Joshua, and David, and the apostles. We have the shield of faith and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:17). And we have God’s promise that Christ shall reign in Heaven and on earth.

God will not let truth lie fallen in the street and be trampled by the wicked. He will raise it up.

Pray for guidance, pray for courage, and for whatever else we need to follow Jesus.

Be of Good Courage

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There’s too much defeatism out there. Too many Christians carrying on like the battle’s lost already, bad guys win, nothing we can do about it, etc. Like they forgot the nooze media never tells the truth and purposely tries to demoralize us so Democrats will win… and maybe they’re starting to believe the lies, half-truths, exaggerations, and minimizations that we’re all bombarded with all day, every day.

Are we not servants of the living God, Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth? Is our faithfulness dependent on our worldly success?

“But what do we have to fight with? They’ve got the media, they’ve got the schools, they’ve got Hollywood, they’ve got wealth and power and are unrestrained by any moral considerations–”

We have resources, though.

*Our brains–surely we are equal to the task of coming up with difficulties that will confuse and exasperate the enemy, even as he confuses and exasperates us. They’re supposed to be The Smartest People In The World–and look at them. If we can’t outsmart a mob of useful idiots with degrees in Gender Studies, we deserve to be conquered.

*The truth–we have the truth and they don’t. We should lose no opportunity to proclaim it. Yes, they’ve paralyzed the world with some shallowly convincing lies–think “man-made climate change” and “systemic racism”–and they have the pulpits and megaphones with which to preach them every day. But if they were so sure of their hold on everybody’s minds, would they still be fighting so hard to establish it? Put truth up against their lies and see who wins.

*We have recourse to prayer, and they don’t. What–are they going to get on their knees and pray “O God, help us to promote abortion?” Or any other one of a myriad of evils they embrace. God hears the prayers of His people, but the prayers of the wicked are an abomination to Him.

Here is where we are tested, here and now, where the rubber meets the road. Are we servants of God, or just hangers-on? Do we trust in God or don’t we?

These are the days of Elijah.

Pray harder, sing louder, and proclaim the truth. Christ already has the victory, and we are His people. Ooh-rah!