The government is on the shoulders of a heavenly Lord. There is a lord presiding over the events of natural justice today: An untimely flood; A natural catastrophe, disease outbreak, a curse smiting the wicked, even justice events like this afflicting ordinary people no more wicked than average but neglectful of the needy. Justice events reach out to avenge the needy. There is a lord hidden from most who presides over these acts of God. He is human. He knows the rights and wrongs, the complexities of human predicaments behind the causes of such punishments from God, so he can represent us as he presides over it all, present in the heavens as the heavens pour down floods. Present in the realms of heaven as angels are appointed to distribute plagues. He presides with mercy and yet his clothes are drenched in the red fluid of the winepress of wrath. This lord is Jesus Christ. The same risen lord seen on the shore as his apostles finished a night of vainly fishing and who told them to put down their nets on the other side of their boats. “It is the lord”, they said when they caught a huge catch of fish on obeying him. They knew Jesus is this lord. Some today see him coming in heaven’s clouds, no longer standing on a sea shore. He shows us it is indeed him who is the lord and he is the same Jesus now as he was back then, shortly after rising from the dead. He teaches the same lessons and shows the same righteousness and faith.
