The world around us
makes us wonder if God really rules it.
We hear about
tragedies all around the world all the time.
People act against
each other, for no reason.
There is torture,
cruelty and violence rampant in the world.
The economic
situation is getting more worrisome all the time and many people are laid off.
People lose their
homes and families live in insecurity.
At the same time we
can see that modern slavery is just rising.
Our lives are touched
by all these global tragedies but also our personal struggles.
There is sickness,
death, depression, loneliness, infertility, poverty, aimlessness, oppression,
exclusion, rejection…
Does God really rule
this world?
I claim that every
time you find yourself in a situation where you ask if God really rules this
world,
It is because He has
brought you there to show what the real kingdom is: His Kingdom.
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16 On his robe and thigh was written this title: “King of Kings and Lord of
Lords.”
Revelation
19:16 Living Bible (TLB)
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The story of the real ruler
Bible is a great
story of the real ruler.
Who is the true King
of Kings or who has the true power.
God has revealed
himself to us so we could understand this.
All through the bible
God lets his voice be heard:
I did it.
I rule.
I am the first and
the last.
God shows us the
history of the world, from the beginning to the end.
And in every part of
it, He says, I did it.
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48 1-2 Hear
me, my people: you swear allegiance to the Lord without meaning a word of it
when you boast of living in the Holy City and brag about depending on the God
of Israel. 3 Time and again I told
you what was going to happen in the future. My words were scarcely spoken when
suddenly I did just what I said. 4 I
knew how hard and obstinate you are. Your necks are as unbending as iron; you
are as hardheaded as brass. 5 That
is why I told you ahead of time what I was going to do, so that you could never
say, “My idol did it; my carved image commanded it to happen!” 6 You have heard my predictions and seen them
fulfilled, but you refuse to agree it is so. Now I will tell you new things I
haven’t mentioned before, secrets you haven’t heard.
7 Then
you can’t say, “We knew that all the time!”
8 Yes,
I’ll tell you things entirely new, for I know so well what traitors you are,
rebels from earliest childhood, rotten through and through. 9 Yet for my own sake and for the honor of my name I
will hold back my anger and not wipe you out. 10 I refined you in the furnace of affliction, but
found no silver there. You are worthless, with nothing good in you at all. 11 Yet for my own sake—yes, for my own sake—I
will save you from my anger and not destroy you lest the heathen say their gods
have conquered me. I will not let them have my glory.
Isaiah
48:1-11 Living Bible (TLB)
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The central idea of
the story of the creation for the people in Moses’ time was the same as it is
for us:
Our God made the
world – no other God did, nor a cosmic force or the chance.
From His own will God
chose a group of people and made a covenant with them.
Prophets would
declare to the people who forgot their covenant that the punishment they would
meet would be a punishment from God, not a strategy of a world conqueror.
In Jesus God came and
told us in human voice, as He told to Moses, I am.
I have come to
conquer the sin and the death, and to show what eternal life in my Kingdom is.
In Revelations God reveals
us what will happen, so that we would not be afraid but would believe that
Our God still rules
and will take to a good conclusion His plan of saving us all.
