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Our God reigns
'In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne ...' Isaiah 6:1
In the good old days, before a pile of bricks and a pickled shark passed for art, artists had an uncanny knack for recreating real life onto their canvases. No canvas has quite captured life with such accuracy as the Bible though. Matthew 24 paints this: 'Nations will fight against other nations; kingdoms will fight against other kingdoms. There will be times when there is no food for people to eat, and there will be earthquakes in different places ...' Well, pickle my paintbrush,
Jesus is spot on with His pictures of the future isn't He?! Almost two millenia after Jesus' predictions, nation did fight nation in two world wars. Famines hit our headlines as we speak. Earthquakes and tsunamis seem to be occurring far too frequently. What does all this mean?
Should we be marching down to the precinct with a sandwich board strapped to our cardigans, saying, 'The end of the world is nigh'? Well, just before you dig out your back garden to build an Armageddon hide-away, know that you're in good company wondering about the state of the world. Isaiah too lived in troubled times when he wrote, 'In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted ...' (Isaiah 6:1 NIV). Isaiah didn't see a twitchy God biting His nails worrying about what was happening. He saw a God that reigned. Guess what? That God still reigns.
written by Bob Gass
'In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne ...' Isaiah 6:1
In the good old days, before a pile of bricks and a pickled shark passed for art, artists had an uncanny knack for recreating real life onto their canvases. No canvas has quite captured life with such accuracy as the Bible though. Matthew 24 paints this: 'Nations will fight against other nations; kingdoms will fight against other kingdoms. There will be times when there is no food for people to eat, and there will be earthquakes in different places ...' Well, pickle my paintbrush,
Jesus is spot on with His pictures of the future isn't He?! Almost two millenia after Jesus' predictions, nation did fight nation in two world wars. Famines hit our headlines as we speak. Earthquakes and tsunamis seem to be occurring far too frequently. What does all this mean?
Should we be marching down to the precinct with a sandwich board strapped to our cardigans, saying, 'The end of the world is nigh'? Well, just before you dig out your back garden to build an Armageddon hide-away, know that you're in good company wondering about the state of the world. Isaiah too lived in troubled times when he wrote, 'In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted ...' (Isaiah 6:1 NIV). Isaiah didn't see a twitchy God biting His nails worrying about what was happening. He saw a God that reigned. Guess what? That God still reigns.
written by Bob Gass
