Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Psalm 148:7-14
by: Susan Bond.
A collage of images, against a backdrop of Scripture—all collected in the last twenty-four hours—crowds my mind: the terrorist air attack on the United States; the giant locust on my sidewalk; the relentless morning fog; Revelations 8-12; televised lawmakers, en masse, singing “God Bless America”; recent attempts to ban God from government-run institutions; Zechariah 7-10.
Seven words come to my rescue: “Ask the Lord…It is the Lord….” (Zechariah 10:1, NIV) God tells us to ask him for rain because it is he who makes rain clouds. What joyous security is mine because he alone has the power to do all things. The government is upon his shoulders (Isaiah 9:6)! Hallelujah!