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It seems every election we go through is billed “as the most important ever” and “will change the future of the world as we know it.” But if you look throughout history you will see leaders come and go powers rise and fall, and what we think of as important, stable, and unchangeable really isn’t.
In Daniel 4 we read of a leader that was warned about his hubris. Though he was on top of the world, it did not mean he was going to stay there. Warned in a vision, he was told to realize, “That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And bestows it on whom He wishes And sets over it the lowliest of men” (Dan. 4:17).
It might be a lesson we need to learn as well.
As much as we think we know who will or won’t be in charge in the coming years, we need to consider that the one that places all those in power is in Heaven. As Nebuchadnezzar concludes about God, “All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the host of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’” (Dan. 4:35).
No matter who is in charge now, God will always be in charge!
Barry Haynes
Hope church of Christ
Hope, AR