Who Is in Control?

The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not."


Brian Kessler


There is a poignant story in the book of Daniel about King Nebuchadnezzar - a great and powerful ancient king of Babylon.   The king is warned in a dream that he will be humbled and brought low unless he acknowledges that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of humans and gives them to anyone he wishes.  Like most human beings it was hard for Nebuchadnezzar to accept that he had not risen to his place because of his own efforts.  A year later he is surveying his kingdom from the roof of the royal palace when he says:  "Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?"  The words are barely out of his mouth when he becomes mad and seven years pass by until he comes to the acknowledgement that his greatness has been given him by God.  We too often think too much of ourselves and our greatness and too seldom of God and his greatness.

"But it is God who judges; He brings one down, he exalts another."  (Psalm 75:7)