Comfort for God's People in Election Year Madness
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
My grandfather spent a lot of time in foxholes. As a soldier in General Patton’s Third Army, he landed at Normandy shortly after D-Day. Following the Allied forces as they advanced toward liberating Paris from Nazi control, he was often under enemy fire. One time, he dove into a foxhole unlike any other he’d been in before. It turned out to be a cave, carved out of a hillside, complete with shelves, a fireplace, and most importantly, a door! He found what many seek, and rarely find; a place of refuge in a war zone.
Why do the nations rage?
In wartime or not, for the child of God–God himself is our foxhole, our refuge, and strength in times of trouble (Psalm 46:1). A refuge is a place of shelter from a storm or an escape from physical or emotional harm. As wonderful as a refuge is, there’s coming a day when the nations who foolishly think they can go to war with God and win, will seek refuge from his wrath, and not find it.
In Psalm 2, we’re introduced to a spiritual standoff between God and the nations. It’s a royal psalm pointing to the Messianic King who sits in heaven and Zion. He’s the ruler of heaven and earth, and yet, the kings of the earth rage against him and seek his overthrow. While David was the anointed king in Israel, this psalm points beyond David, to the greater David, Jesus Christ. It begins this way…