Faithful ruler

 

John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. – Revelation 1.4-6

 

We see a lot of descriptions of Jesus in the book of Revelation. All of them point to His glory and majesty and power. The images are striking and might even seem scary.

 

For those of us who believe though they images give us great hope and encouragements.

 

Here we read that Jesus is a faithful witness, that is the firstborn of the dead, and that He is the true ruler over all the earth. He is in charge ultimately even though Satan often seems in control of this sinful broken world.

 

All of our human rulers are going to fail us. They are only human. They really are no different than us. They will let us down. They will not always be faithful.

 

But God is always faithful. He will never ever let us down no matter what. When everyone lets us down He never will. Everything He says in this book will come true.

 

We live in a broken world with broken leaders, but we can live here as a part of a heavenly kingdom where we will never be let down.