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From: "James MacDonald" <webmaster@walkintheword.com>
Sender: "James MacDonald" <webmaster=walkintheword.com@mcsv156.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:06:09 -0400
To: <karen_kemi@yahoo.com>
ReplyTo: "James MacDonald" <webmaster@walkintheword.com>
Subject: History According to God
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 | History According to God 
"Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble." - Isaiah 40:21-24 Worried about world powers? World War 3? Terrorists? Market crashes? Biological warfare? Understand this from Isaiah : "[God] who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness." What ever happened to Napoleon? Didn't he die in exile on an island somewhere? Or Alexander, the not-so Great? Hitler? Or the maniac leaders of our generation - Osama bin Laden or what was his name, Sadam Hussein? Their influence is hardly a blip on God's monitor. They may cause us to bite our nails and worry, but God isn't pacing, or wringing His hands. Just as soon as He's ready He will reduce those leaders to nothing and He will do it with His feet up. Isaiah says in effect, "Don't you get it? God doesn't read the New York Times. If He did, it wouldn't make any difference. Nothing stops God's unalterable purposes in this world!" I can't wait for that day in heaven when we get to hear history's real story - when we read God's script and realize all He was doing behind the scenes. Just imagine the drama of God's continuous, all-wise intervention in the sinful machinations of human armies and governments. To think that not one of His purposes is ever delayed or frustrated - not even for a moment. We will be amazed, stunned, and captured by God's awesome control of human affairs. Verse 24 says of world rulers, "Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth." God just blows on them and they're gone: "when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble." When will we embrace the reality of God's awesome control over history? History is and always has been God's ballgame. He decides who gets on base, who pitches, who scores. He calls one man out and advances another runner. Don't try to figure it out. 
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