Article October 31, 2016 Issue

One Ego, one harmonious government

David C. Kennedy

I was watching TV the first night of the attempted coup in Turkey some months ago. The chaos, the rage, the shooting, the bombs, the thousands of shouting people, both for and against the coup—it was bedlam and it was dangerous, and my heart went out to all who were caught up in it, on both sides.

I turned off the TV to pray for a while. Then I opened my Bible to a passage that came to thought: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalms 2:1–4).

As I read it, I felt something of what it conveys of God’s supreme power—and of the impotence of whatever would rage against God, whatever would strive to assert itself as an ego, selfhood, or power apart from God. What inspired me was the truth that the whole picture of many minds in conflict was at its core invalid and powerless in the face of what the Bible teaches about God, because it was a brazen denial of God’s supremacy and harmonious government.

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