Just as a shipwreck victim longs to feel land beneath his feet, so we long to remember the solidity and security of former times. What we need to remember, therefore, is that even when the floods rise up—even when the rivers continue their relentless pounding—the throne of Yahweh remains fixed and immovable. 

The LORD reigns… (Psalm 93:1)

Some truths break upon the soul like fire: they come quickly, with much heat and light. Others rise to our awareness more gradually, like the creeping realization that the ground is beneath your feet — and, indeed, has always been there. The truth under present consideration is this latter kind, and comes in the opening words of the ninety-third psalm: “The LORD reigns.” This, I’m sure, is a familiar observation for most — and perhaps feels a bit elementary — but that’s precisely the reason we should focus upon it. Though simple, it contains worlds of wonder.

The reality of God’s reign is treated as a brute fact throughout the entirety of the psalm. It is presented as an immovable fixture of reality comparable to the permanence of the world itself. Just as the world has been “established” and shall never be moved, so Yahweh’s throne is “established from of old” (v. 2). It, too, shall never be moved.

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