“and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.” (Collosians 2:10)
William J. Wolfe has called Abraham Lincoln “one of the greatest theologians of America”. He added that Lincoln’s theology was profound, “not in the technical meaning of producing a system of doctrine, certainly not as the defender of some one denomination, but in the sense of seeing the hand of God intimately in the affairs of nations.” (Gospel Herald)
Some situations make us thinking about the sovereignty of God over all nations and question “why this happened?”, “Why God seems like not willing to stop all the chaos and terror in the world?” Our thought could not reach the full understanding of what God is doing in the world because our lack of wisdom and poornees of intimacy with the Holy Spirit and God’s Word. All thoughts that make us believe that there is no intervention of God in everything that happened, are the thought that should be discarderd from our mind.
From the scripture above, today we are reminded again that Christ rules over all the nations. It is said that “He is the head over every power and authority.” We may still see terror and wickedness in the world, but the time will come that all evil would be destroyed by the hand of Christ.
Do not be afraid of anything but surender all our struggle to Jesus Christ and trust Him in every way. Amen.
Renungan Harian Kristen