Today is Wednesday, October 5th, 2011; Karen's Korner #2168
At our Sunday School class on Sunday, our discussion took us to the first part of Psalm 2; where it talks about 'God laughing'. What would make God laugh?
Seems God laughs at the 'puny plans of people' and nations who believe they can turn their back on God.
Any countries in the world who think that today?
"What fools the nations are to rage against the Lord!
How strange that men should try to outwit God!
For a summit conference of the nations has been called
to plot against the Lord and his Messiah,
Christ the King.
'Come, let us break his chains,'
they say,
'and free ourselves from all this slavery to God.'
But God in heaven merely laughs!
He is amused by all their puny plans.
And then in fierce fury he rebukes them
and fills them with fear.
~ Psalm 2:1 - 5 LB
Bible Commentary: People often think they will be free if they can get away from God. Yet we all inevitably serve somebody or something, whether a human king, the wishes of friends, or our own selfish desires. Just as a fish is not free when it leaves the water and a tree is not free when it leaves the soil, we are not free when we leave the Lord. The one sure rule to freedom is wholeheartedly serving God the Creator. He can set you free to be who he created you to be.
God laughs, not at the nations, but at their confused thoughts about power. It is the kind of laughter which a father has with his preschool son who boasts of outrunning his father or conquering him in a wrestling match. The father knows the boundaries of power of his little boy, and God knows the boundaries of power of the nations. If you must choose to put your confidence in God or the nations, choose God!
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