To God Belongs the Day

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Unless you have been living under a stone lately (and I doubt you have); you have noticed how dark the world seems to be today.  Terror continues to strike at the hearts of nation after nation and political bickering has become as shameful as ever in the United States.  At times it is easy to feel that nothing good remains: that everything that is “green and good in this world” has been destroyed or taken away. 

Perhaps you have watched the morning news or nightly news, or even the twenty-four hour news and as a result have found yourself in a sorrowful place.  It is easy to look at the world around us and think that there is no hope.  It is tempting to believe that God has given up; that He has forsaken us; or even that He does not exist.  If you find yourself in such times of emotional sorrow look to the words of the psalmist in Psalm 74.  Quite likely written after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. the author was living during a time of enormous destruction, catastrophe, and darkness.  Yet in the midst of the darkness he declared:

            12 Yet God is my king from of old,

Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.

13 You divided the sea by Your strength;

You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;

You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

15 You broke open springs and torrents;

You dried up ever-flowing streams.

16 Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;

You have prepared the light and the sun.

17 You have established all the boundaries of the earth;

You have made summer and winter.

God is still on His throne.  God still loves His children.  God is still the God of hope.  To Him belongs the day, the night, the nation, the politicians, the world, and the universe.  Let us not walk in the darkness but run to the light:  to the one true light of the world who is Jesus Christ the Son of God.