Job 12:23-25 (ESV Strong's)
He makes nations great, and he destroys them;
he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and makes them wander in a trackless waste.
They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Subject: God's Sovereignty vs. Man's Governance
As this little devotional is being written we are in the beginning stages of the 2016 presidential campaign. Nations we never heard of are in play on the world's stage. Leaders who have little standing in the known power-groups in the world are staking claim to their own rule and their own control over territory and even without territory ... In the ideas of man's man!! It would be easy to lose focus on God in the midst of all this chaotic upheaval on the stage of power and leadership. The news media is swarming with prognosticators and pundits who claim some special revelation on the prospects of future happenings. Yet, in the above passage, in Job's defense of his painful and Dalmatia situation, we get a truth that can ease the hearts and minds of God's people: God is still in charge. For Job the above thoughts must have been so reassuring. He was not thinking of presidents and pundits or problems or politics. He was focused on His problem; a loss of family and health. Yet, in the midst of that loss and that pain, he held to the above truth. God is in charge. God brings some down and sets others up. God is God and we have nothing to fear. His PERFECT love cast out all fear.
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