Tag: Leadership Belongs to the Lord!!! Psalms 21-23

Psalms 22:27-28

All the ends of the earth shall remember

and turn to the Lord,

and all the families of the nations

shall worship before you.

For kingship belongs to the Lord,

and he rules over the nations.

Tag:  Leadership Belongs to the Lord!!

Before we can understand the above verses it might be wise to read what Isaiah writes to the nation of Israel as a message from God:

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness,

I make well-being and create calamity,

I am the Lord, who does all these things.

God is completely sovereign.  In fact, you can’t technically be 1/2 sovereign.  You are either completely sovereign or you are not at all.  In the above Psalm, David has been crying out to God for strength, mercy and help.   He is apparently in one of those places where God is the only one who can save him.   In the midst of those circumstances we have the truth that Isaiah talks about ... God creates the circumstances around us and is the ONLY one who can deliver us from them.   Yet, man still wants to be in control.   In our country Washington D.C. thinks it is control.   Lawmakers play silly power games with each other.   In Hollywood, the elite get together and pretend they are in control.    In homes, father and/or mothers think they are in control ... or, worse, teenagers think they are in control.   In churches, dominating clergy think they are in control.   Yet, in reality, as the above Psalm states:  “For kingship belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations.”