Considerations: The LORD Reigns, Let the Earth Rejoice!

"The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice" (Psalm 97:1).

          While people try to care for a deteriorating planet in the hope of ensuring a green future for our children and grandchildren, the earth itself rejoices in this one thing: "The LORD reigns".

          The red dragon has a short-lived opportunity to trash God's good and beautiful creation. The cancer of sin ravages the very earth that groans under the weight of its bondage. But the earth rejoices because it has felt the piercing, penetrating foot of a cross that stood out from every other cross; and it felt the drops of blood that were different from every other blood that was shed; for the earth knew that the Savior, its Creator, had come to redeem a people for himself, and that "the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God" (Romans 8:21).

          Now, as the Psalm-writer said, and Revelation 4 makes so clear: "The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice!"

 

© 2013 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517, Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com

Unless otherwise noted, Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.)