Rest on His Assurances

December 7

There is speculation that leaders in the United States should have been aware that a Japanese attack was imminent. The U.S. had been doing things that were considered provocative, so to have been taken by surprise on this date in 1941 is most incredulous to ‘conspiracy theorists’ who believe some people in high places relished the prospect of a sneak attack so our entry into World War II would be undisputed.

Be that as it may, we will continue to speculate as long as history books are being written and men’s motives for their actions are weighed and evaluated long after their impact has been felt. Yet there can be no dispute—the world of the mid Twentieth Century was far different because the Allies won the conflagration than it would have been had Germany and Japan been victorious.

We can only stand in awe of the God who has had His hand on the affairs of men from time immemorial and be grateful to Him that He has allowed the events of time to proceed toward the end that He has had in His heart since He fashioned man. As Paul states so eloquently in his letter to the believers at Philippi, “God, who began a good work, will carry it until completion at the day of Jesus Christ,” Philippians 1:6.

Whether that ‘good work’ is global in nature or whether it is in the life of an individual believer, we who have placed our time and our eternity into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ may rest on His assurances that it is His good pleasure to do us good. He will maneuver and conform circumstances toward the end that those who trust Him will spend eternity ruling and reigning with Him (II Timothy 2:12).