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God reigns over the nations; God sits upon His holy throne. Psalm 47:8 AMPC
Warehouse workers for nationwide retail chains don’t often think about their company’s CEO. They have more immediate concerns—getting their jobs done, trying not to get sick, making sure they get to work on time and home on time to take care of their children. They may see photos of the CEO or get company-wide communications from the CEO occasionally, but for the most part they’re caught up in smaller-picture matters.
God’s people can be the same way. You might know God rules over everything, but you aren’t as concerned with that as with keeping your job, feeding your family, and paying your bills. The tendency is to treat God like an immediate supervisor rather than the owner of the company.
But God is the owner of everything, and His people are subject to Him before anything else.
As Derek Webb sang in his 2005 son “A King and a Kingdom,” “My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man. My first allegiance is not to democracy or blood. It’s to a King and a Kingdom.”
Don’t get lost in the small picture. Are you treating God like an immediate supervisor, or are you serving Him as the King over everything?
Prayer: Sovereign God, keep me from thinking of You as either too removed to care or too powerless to change things. You are my King.
Warehouse workers for nationwide retail chains don’t often think about their company’s CEO. They have more immediate concerns—getting their jobs done, trying not to get sick, making sure they get to work on time and home on time to take care of their children. They may see photos of the CEO or get company-wide communications from the CEO occasionally, but for the most part they’re caught up in smaller-picture matters.
God’s people can be the same way. You might know God rules over everything, but you aren’t as concerned with that as with keeping your job, feeding your family, and paying your bills. The tendency is to treat God like an immediate supervisor rather than the owner of the company.
But God is the owner of everything, and His people are subject to Him before anything else.
As Derek Webb sang in his 2005 son “A King and a Kingdom,” “My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man. My first allegiance is not to democracy or blood. It’s to a King and a Kingdom.”
Don’t get lost in the small picture. Are you treating God like an immediate supervisor, or are you serving Him as the King over everything?
Prayer: Sovereign God, keep me from thinking of You as either too removed to care or too powerless to change things. You are my King.
