Isaiah 66: 1 – 3 This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hands made all these things, and so they came into being? ” declares the Lord. “This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.”

Do you find yourself pondering about the wave of refugees transiting the oceans to find safety and work in various other nation states? Are you puzzled by this and the frequency and magnitude of other mind-boggling events in nature as well as political upheavals taking place around the world in our time? These suggest to me that a divine re-structuring is taking place. Is it possible that we live in an age when mankind takes no account of the Lord God – a God who is sovereign over everything and has his own agenda for the future of his creation?

Job was a good man who suffered severe trials and loss, all of which was permitted by God. At the end God appeared to Job to remind him that he is the Creator. God re-educated Job about his might and majesty and asked him, “Who then is able to stand against me? Who has a claim against me that I must pay?” (Job 41:10b) and declared “Everything under heaven belongs to me.” (Job 41:11). In Job’s response to God he acknowledged, “I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.” (Job 42:2)

In the Book of Exodus we read about God’s intervention to bring his chosen people, the Israelites, out Egypt after four hundred years of slavery. That process brought deliverance to God’s people but was fatal to the Egyptians. God covenanted himself to the Israelites though they were a rebellious lot. He often allowed them to reap the results of their disobedience but even in their failure, he would fulfill his promises to them for his own name’s sake.

In Matthew 24 Jesus gave an exhaustive list of events which would unfold in the end times on a magnitude “unequaled from the beginning of the world until now.” I firmly believe that God still intervenes in individual lives and in human history to fulfill his own agenda. God’s righteousness is the defense of his own name. Whatever is predicted in the Bible will become true as time passes. At the end of my meditation, the Holy Spirit spoke to me:

“There are times when I take it upon myself to intervene for my Holy Name’s sake. Thus I display my sovereignty and totally disrupt the actions of mankind in such a way that they cannot fail to see my hand of righteousness. In this way I create the kind of change that I require to satisfy my divine prerogatives. It is not incidental that some events which are occurring on the world stage have never been seen before. These are events of great magnitude that cannot escape the attention of the whole world. I am still the Almighty Sovereign Lord and I will not share my glory with any man. There are things that only I can do.”