In an age when rage-baiting, shrieking, and childish whining passes for public discourse, we must remain composed and stable. Not because we are aloof, but because we are controlled by the deep and pervasive conviction that God has installed His King on Zion (Psalm 2:6).

There is no doubt that saints ought to rejoice. Just as birds ought to fly or trees ought to grow and fill their branches with a thousand little buds and leaves, so the saints ought to rejoice. But the joy of God’s people isn’t ambiguous—it doesn’t hang in the air like a cloud, all vague and undefined. The joy of God’s people is concrete, springing from a specific root: the reign of God.

The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice…Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
—Psalm 97:1, 8

The reign of God is the joy of His saints. It is the object of their constant praise and meditation. When trouble eclipses their vision and they feel their hearts becoming burdened by fear, anxiety, and unbelief, the Lord’s reign is the thing they must fight to return to. It is this truth they must wrestle to keep in constant view.

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