Daily Devotion

July 11, 2006

Psalms 103:6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

For six thousand years mankind has attempted to govern itself. For six thousand years kingdoms, empires, rulers, philosophies and modes of governments have come and gone, and yet there has never been a time when the whole earth was ruled in peace, with happiness and plenty for all. There may have been societies who’ve accomplished a certain level of harmony, but it has always been at the price of oppression of a ethnic, social, or economic minority.

The Bible teaches us the basic social structure by which man should be governed. It also instructs us on godly economics, justice and righteousness; but instead of learning from the One who created us all, we are all too busy trying to ‘reinvent the wheel.’ To our great God’s chosen form of government is not decided majority rule, and neither is the office of being God available to public election.

Only Jesus the Messiah will succeed in ruling the world as it should be run. When He returns to live with us here on earth, He will teach us all how the world should have been governed. Then and only then, will the planet be ruled without social and economic injustice. The poor will have enough and the rich not too much; the magistrate will rule under God without respect of persons; justice will be rendered; issues will be resolved in a wise and mature way without the use of force.

As for today, if one claims to be a Christian, a follower of Jesus the Christ, he may do well to take the time to review his earthly social behavior with the Word of God. Let there be no mistake: our salvation is by grace, but every one of our words, every one of our actions, will be weighed and reckoned with. We will be made to eat our own words and to see the fruits of our selfish, conceited actions and poor judgment (1 Corinthians 3:13-15). Judgment does begin at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17).

Psalms 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

Patrick Lumbroso
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