King Forever

Psalm 29:10 ESV says, “The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king forever.”

It’s good to remember that God’s kingdom is bigger than us. It’s one thing to recognize God as the king right now, certainly a good place to start. God rules and reigns directly in our immediate world, but his kingdom is not confined to the length of our days on this earth.

My perspective of time is so limited to what I have experienced and the extent of my imagination. The length of forever is beyond the largest thing I can comprehend. Trying to understand in any meaningful way the magnitude of some measures is totally futile. Sure, we can use comparison and units to try and count something, but do we really understand how big 8 Billion people is? Can we really comprehend the size of the sun, or the far greater celestial stars? Perhaps with a good amount of determination and focus we can start to grasp these humongous realities.

The same goes for the extent of time. Trying to imagine eternity with God is utterly hopeless. We sing about 10,000 years to sing the praises of God, but that hardly counts for the measure of eternity. In a way, eternity is nothing more than permanence. To say that God’s kingdom endures forever means not that his kingdom will journey on in the trajectory of time, but that it is more firmly established than time itself.

I apologize if this post is a bit too abstract or conceptual. All I am saying is that it is worth recognizing that God’s kingdom is bigger than we might normally suppose. Stopping to recognize that our place in the story of God is a humble drop of water in an ocean of time, like dust in the wind, is a powerful and sobering posture to take.

He is king forever. So upright, just, and divine, that his place at the Authoritative One is immovable.

We look to the heavens and marvel at the greatness of God.

Unmatched.

Uparalleled.

Unconstrained.

Relentlessly holy.

Then we can wonder in awe that scripture might even dare to point toward a glorious communion with such a divine God. Psalm 8:3-4 says, “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”

As you move onward from this moment, recognize that God is both an eternal king, and a tender friend. He who spun the stars and galaxies into existence, who measures the heavens in his hand, is mindful of you.

Come into his presence and abide.