“The National Observer” – FBC Morning Light (5/8/2024)

Well, a good Wednesday morning to you.

Here we are in the middle of the week.

I hope your week is going well thus far.

Well, today we're reading the Psalms of David, Psalms 64 through 66.

I hope you're enjoying these readings in the Psalms.

Earlier in this year, we were, I don't want to say slogging our way, but sometimes it

feels that way when you're reading through Leviticus and Numbers and some of

those passages and Chronicles and so forth.

And, and, and yeah, you know, it's just, it can be kind of tough sometimes.

I get that.

I understand that.

And though there's great benefit in all of the word of God, sometimes, you know, the

getting to the Psalms is like a, it's refreshing.

There's some refreshment in it.

I hope you find that to be the case.

Well, anyway, today I want to zero in on part of one verse in Psalm 66.

I want you to think about the nations of the earth, specifically, not

in general, think of some specific countries and the leaders of those countries and

what, and how you view, how you view them, what you see as their character.

All right.

Think about the, think about the leader of North Korea.

What do you think of him?

How about, how about the leader Putin of Russia?

You think of him.

How about the, the leader of China?

What about the president of the United States?

Think of him.

About Trudeau up in, up in Canada.

What do you, what think you of he, of him?

And then we can go on.

There's the nations of Venezuela, Colombia, the

leader of Mexico.

All of these different nations, variety of leaders in countries in Africa,

some who are very, very dictatorial, shall we say.

How about the leader of Iran or Iraq for that matter?

Saudi Arabia, et cetera.

And so on and so forth.

Now, when you think about these nations and the leaders that you've seen in the news at one time or

another, it's, all of them have something in common.

And that is a sense of pride, a sense of

power, as if they, they are, they don't need

anybody, they're not answerable to anybody.

That, you know, they're all it, right?

But here's this passage in, in Psalm 66, it's one part of the verse, which says this,

that he, the Lord rules by his power forever, his

eyes observe the nations.

I want to encourage you with that today.

I want to remind you that regardless of what you see on the news and

regardless of how vocal and vociferous

the saber rattlers might be, there's something they're not taking into consideration.

The Lord observes them in their rebellious defiance against him

sometimes and their arrogant, in their arrogance attitude toward

their neighbors or toward other countries or nations of the earth.

And remember, after all, there is no truly Christian nation, right?

But in, in all of those nations of the earth that think they are so powerful,

so independent, so, so apart from

and outside of any divine control whatsoever.

Let's always remember, he observes the nations,

the Lord observes the nations.

And all of these, all of these leaders that puff

themselves up and pontificate and act so arrogant, they are

really just powerless and insignificant in the

eyes of the one who observes them.

So let's keep that in mind when you watch the news tonight, or you read the paper, or however you catch your

news on a newsfeed through your browser or whatever, however you get your news

and you read about the nations of the earth.

Always remember that he, the Lord, observes the nations.

And we thank you, Father, that you do.

And we thank you that we can trust you to do all things well in your

sovereign providential working in the nations of this earth and the

leaders who lead those nations, thank you for the confidence that we have in you,

in this world.

In Jesus name, Amen.

All right, listen, have a great rest of your Wednesday.

Hope the Lord will bless you in it.

Good day.