What? Me Worry?

DAY 246
6-4-10
DANIEL 7-9


Good Morning!

While in captivity, Daniel is given visions from God concerning the pagan kingdoms that will rule with dominance and power over Israel and the world; but that they will be limited in their strength. Daniel frets and worries and loses sleep over the dreams. Why? Daniel is a rock-solid believer. He knows that Babylon and the Medes and Persians are in no way stronger than God or everlasting like God’s people. He’s got to believe that the Greeks and the nation to come after them will be strong; but that God still reigns over the whole world.

We are just like Daniel. We believe in the power of God and that he is sovereign over all the earth. Yet we worry and fret over rulers; nations; and the future. God understands that although we have total faith in him, we will still struggle with understanding the future and trusting his power.

Let God’s word remind us again that his plans for the world are meant to bless his children.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men; that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. (Acts 17:24-28)

I, for one, do not want to waste time, or energy, or sleep worrying about nations and politics. I know that God is in charge. He is planning and working for my good. Therefore I will pray; be informed; and vote. Beyond that, I have better, more important things to concern myself with.

Barry