Ps 67:3-7 "May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. 4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. Selah 5 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. 6 Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. 7 God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him.:" NIV
Oh, how the earth longs for just government! It is man’s injustice towards his fellow man that is the source of so much of the division and conflict that is raging throughout the earth. As men corruptly pursue their own ends in the various nations of the earth heart after heart is filled with a longing for truly righteous and just leadership to arise in the nations. Instead of one nation rising up against another, the hearts of simple men and women are longing for a day when we may all enjoy peace and love in the context of mutual blessing. This is the cry of hearts throughout the whole earth. Man’s selfishness is at the center of division in families, communities and nations. The Apostle James diagnoses the problem clearly in James 4:1-3 when he says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”
Psalm 67 gives us hope of a better day! There is a time coming when the Lord our God will rule the earth with justice and righteousness. The day is declared when the Lord will establish a righteous rule over all the earth in complete love in complete trustworthiness. Imagine leadership that can be truly trusted to not act with any seed of jealousy, self-promotion, greed or lust. Imagine a government that will bring forth abundant blessing for all. This is the hope of the millennial reign of Christ. This is the vision of a better day. Our hearts cry how long as we watch the nations decay into greater and greater chaos. But Jesus said that no one knows the day or the hour when the Son of Man will return. And so our hearts are destined to live in hope, in faith of a better day.
However, we are not without hope in this life as we await the Lord. There is great blessing promised to those who will live for the kingdom of God. For those who will fix their eyes on the heavenly kingdom of God and live with a whole heart for God’s purpose there is great promise, great reward. Jesus said in Matt 19:29 “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.” As God releases blessing on His obedient servants, the result is a testimony that goes throughout the earth to speak into the hearts of those who would listen to make known the goodness of God. As we praise God through the voice of an obedient life God’s blessing accompanies us and world discoverers the living God.
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