A Blessed Nation

Psalm 33:12

 

12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.

 

The world looks at Israel as a blessed nation because their entire history has been based on them being the people of God. The world sees the United States of America as a blessed nation. Guess what? That blessing is not based on being a super power as all would believe. How can one be a super power unless God allows it? The blessing comes from this country being founded on a nation under God. The founders of this nation were Christian.  The founders of this nation wanted everyone to know, "In God we trust." The founders of the nation created in our pledge, "One nation, under God"  The founders of this nation understood that for them to be blessed in a new place, they must remember that God is Lord. What about those who do not recognize our God as Lord? They are still being covered and benefiting because they are in a land who pledged to make God its Lord. In Joshua 1:3 God said to Joshua, "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses." In the NKJ Study Bible translation of the verse it says, "Treading upon the soil symbolized acceptance of property ownership; handing your shoe to another symbolized the transfer of land. The transaction bound the new owners to the law, the land and the god of the region." 

 

Just above in verse 10 the word states, "The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect." Are you wondering if God can do that? He sure can.  Egypt thought it was going to recapture those that God set free so they could once again prosper. Did God not destroy them for going after the people of God? He did it to Ephraim. Ephraim hosted the descendants of Esau. They had been destroyed. They had planned to rebuild and to be greater than they were before.God let them know that no matter what they attempted to do that He would knock it down. Babylon thought it was going to continue in its arrogance and riding on the backs of God's people. God destroyed Babylon. God always has the last say.