He Rules the Nations

Scripture:
All the ends of the earth will remember
and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations
will bow down before you,
for kingship belongs to the Lord;
he rules the nations.
Psalm 22:27-28

Observation: Psalm 22 is so clearly a prophesy about the Messiah that it is difficult to read any other way. After verses about a suffering servant being shamed and crucified, with his enemies taking all his possessions, we then discover that by this action the entire world will know the Lord. People from every nation will come to bow down before the Lord, for his servant accomplished the work.

Application: We have reached a time with "all the ends of the earth" have heard of Jesus, and remember him, and by him can turn to the Lord. Yes, not every person does, and that was never going to be true, but the word about a Jewish carpenter who never held a steady job, and never traveled outside his own country, and never visited a town larger than about 25,000, and never wrote a document himself ... has spread to where, 2,000 years later, news of him is everywhere.

Kingship belongs to the Lord, and to Jesus the Christ who sits at his right hand. He rules the nations.

Prayer: Lord, you are the great ruler of not just creation, but of all created. You rule the nations. May you rule our nation, giving all the leaders at all levels wisdom to bring your good into our land. Amen.