God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.” (Psalms 47:8, ESV). It is easy to forget that God rules all governments; he really does reign over the earth. We are heavily influenced by our natural eyes which see all the actions of humans, all the power of governments, and all the force of armies. We elect Presidents and Prime Ministers and we pray they will wisely rule us; and this is good. But “the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4:18).
He is unseen but God rules all governments. He allows people to harm and destroy one another and so it seems that God is inactive. But in this age he is only letting us choose to love him or reject him. Yet he still has ultimate control and so we do not need to fear. If politicians let us down, we do not despair. If leaders turn away from God we are not defeated. If our society is consumed by hedonism and secular Pharaisaism we still have victory over sin by God’s power.
God rules all governments, cultures, political movements and leaders. Since we are his, we are “more than conquerors” (Rom. 8:37).
