Now why do you cry aloud ? Is there no king in you.
Micah 4:9
One time in the Old Testament, an army invaded Jerusalem and killed their king.
For the first time, the people of Israel were without a leader. They were discouraged and didn’t know what to do.
As they sat there thinking that it was over, the prophet Micah rose up and said, “Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you?”
I believe that God is saying the same thing to each of us: “There’s a king in you.”
You may have made mistakes, but you are still a child of the Most High God.
You may have gone through disappointments, but You have royal blood flowing through your veins.
You may have missed good opportunities, but let these words sink deep down into your spirit.
“The king is still in you.” “The queen is still in you.”
You are still wearing a crown of favor and clothed in a robe of honor.
Globalization and the attendant concerns about poverty and inequality have become a focus of discussion in a way that few other topics, except for international terrorism or global warming, have. Most people have a strong opinion on globalization, and all of them express an interest in the well-being of the world's poor. The financial press and influential international officials confidently assert that global free markets expand the horizons for the poor, whereas activist-protesters hold the opposite belief with equal intensity. Yet the strength of people's conviction is often in inverse proportion to the amount of robust factual evidence they have.As is common in contentious public debates, different people mean different things by the same word. Some interpret "globalization" to mean the global reach of communications technology and capital movements, some think of the outsourcing by domestic companies in rich countries, and others see globalization as a byword for...
Comments