Who’s in Charge Here?

People are coming back to their senses,

are running back to God.

Long-lost families

are falling on their faces before him.

God has taken charge;

 from now on he has the last word.

— Psalm 22:26-27, The Message version

It’s written in past tense, as if it’s already happened: God has taken charge.

But you and I know it doesn’t always feel that way, seem that way, or look that way.

Maybe that’s simply because God has taken charge isn’t the end of the sentence.

There’s a promise still to come: from now on he has the last word.

There’s an old line about losing a battle here and there but still winning the war.  Isn’t that what’s still going on, in big and small ways, everyday?

Next week it’ll already be Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent.  Several weeks later Good Friday will come, and we’ll again hear how Christ Jesus gasped out this Psalm’s first line as he was dying on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”  But that’s not the end of Psalm 22.

Good Friday wasn’t the end, either: God has taken charge;  from now on he has the last word.

Let’s help each other remember that this week.

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