Bible Week Booklet Fijian Version BB 2019 English | Page 14

STUDY 6 GOD’S WORD GIVES LIFE
FOR THE NATION
Bible Text - Psalm 33:12
“Blessed is the nation, whose God is the Lord, the people whom
He has chosen for Hs own inheritance.”
God is sovereign and he alone determines the destiny of all nations on
earth. God doesn’t need a committee to decide what needs to be done
now and for the future. He alone is the sole judge. And by nature, God
is a JUST God.
This makes it imperative that every nation on earth must first of all
acknowledge that there is a God who created all things and has to be
worshipped without compromise. In fact, the Psalmist declares in Psalm
24:1, “The earth is the Lords and everything therein.” The earth is God’s
by ownership, it is ours by stewardship. Stewardship means that we will
one day be accountable to God, the owner, for the way we have looked
after what belongs to him. When we understand this as Christians, it
becomes clear to us that only through the worship of the one true God,
can we be blessed as a nation and bear true allegiance to his course.
God spoke to the Israelites in Exodus 20 where he laid down before
them the ten commandments, the first of which captures the essence of
who He is and why He needs to be the number one focus and priority
of every person and peoples on earth. This is what he said then and still
very much relevant for every nation on earth today. “And God spoke all
these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt,
out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.”
God reminds Israel that he alone is
their worship. Secondly, he told
enslaved people who could not
needed a deliverer and God came to
God and he alone deserves
them that they were an
redeem themselves. They
their rescue through Moses.
As Christians, we are obligated not only to pray for our nations and
leaders, but also to do everything we can to remind those in leadership
that a nation without God is a nation without purpose, meaning and
direction. God’s word provides the sure foundation upon which a godly
nation is built. A nation is blessed when God is enthroned in his rightful
place as God.
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