Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Day We Rue May Be Today

While reading this morning I was reminded of these three truths that underscores a greater truth;
1.     As we have relinquished God’s sovereignty to the government;
2.     The government has continually tried to marginalize God;
3.     God didn’t join in.
This reminder came as I was reading Daniel and one of God’s angels issued this proclamation to Nebuchadnezzar of his impending fall, “The purpose of this decree is that all the world may understand that the Most High dominates the kingdoms of the world…!”

However, it was later while reading a commentary on Samuel and his dismay at God’s people demanding a king that Truth was brought home to me which made the three truths mentioned above poignant.  The commentator wrote, “Samuel’s prophecy about what a king would do to the people reaches down to our own day.  It seems almost to imply that when a state becomes too highly organized it assumes its omnicompetency.  It is then no longer a government but a state.  The abstraction “the state” becomes an entity with being, powers, and functions of its own.  Then the people exist for it, rather than that it should exist for the people…Vehemently he (Samuel) promises them that they will rue the day when the first made it possible for the state, with a centralized government, to assume the right to use everyone and everything for its own ends.


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