Daily Devotion

July 26, 2006

Psalms 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

It is God who rules over the kingdoms of man, and He gives it to whomsoever He will (Daniel 4:25). It is God who ordains kings and rulers; He puts one up, takes down another, and He often gives people the type of government they deserve. Just like when we have a large family, we do not approach each of our children in the same manner. We may ‘rule’ over the one who is unruly, while being able to reason with the one who is reasonable. Unruly people need a strong type of government to keep them corralled, while a milder natured people can do with a softer rule (1 timothy 1:9).

A nation is blessed or punished according to the acts of its king. When a king is godly, makes wise choices according to God’s Spirit, God blesses the nation with increase, wisdom, the favor of its neighbors, internal peace, security and an overall sense of growth towards righteousness and virtue. This principle has often given rise to new empires from lessons found in the decadent ashes of their indulgent wicked predecessors; but when this new empire also backslides from the virtue that earned God’s blessing, in turn, it also becomes the prey of its more righteous neighbor.

This generation is proud and does not like to admit to faults and sins. It justifies itself to its own conscience with ‘conditions’, and ‘syndromes’, but healing and forgiveness can only come after full admission of error. David, a man of God not unaffected by human passions, knew how to eventually humble himself before God and endorse not just his own sins, but also the sins of his ancestors, and that of the nation. Like Moses, he was a true mediator of the people, and God blessed the country when under his rule.

Oh, that God may give us kings, rulers who refuse to pride themselves on the arm of the flesh; who know not only to seek God about their own sin, but to also acknowledge the sins of their fathers and of their nation; kings who have the spirit of atonement for their people, who seek God’s blessing for them even at their own hurt; then and only then, will we again draw God’s blessing upon our land.

When the world will have come to the end of its own unraveling, when its economy, politics and diplomacy will arrive at the impasse of all impasses, when it will have pushed itself into a corner, Jesus Christ, the King of Glory who atones for the sins of all nations, will make a triumphal entry on the world scene (Revelations 19:11). He will show of us how we have sinned in our pride show us the example of a true king.


2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Patrick Lumbroso
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