Our God Reigns

I was listening to the song "Our God Reigns" by Delirious? this morning.

I look around the world and I see everything seeming to go completely wrong. I see reasonable people being outraged over a restriction on "a womans right to choose", nevermind that the "choice" means killing an innocent life. The deaths at VTech, the deaths in Turkey, the deaths and carnage in Iraq, and I could go on and on.

Yet the song focused me again. This isn't the upbeat pop "The Lord Reigns" that seems to foget that there is still suffereing in this world. This is a quiet, sober, thoughtful song.

It was an encouragment. God is in control. No matter what is going on, He reigns, He has His purposes in our lives and our world, and in the end, we will see His plan.



40 million babies lost to Gods great orphanage,
It’s a modern day genocide and a modern day disgrace
If this is a human right then why aren’t we free?
The only freedom we have is in a man nailed to a tree.

100 million faces, staring at the sky,
Wondering if this HIV will ever pass us by.
The devil stole the rain and hope trickles down the plug,
But still my Chinese take away could pay for someone’s drugs.

Our God reigns, Our God reigns,
Forever your kingdom reigns.

The west has found a gun and it’s loaded with ‘unsure’
Nip and tuck if you have the bucks in a race to find a cure.
Psalm one hundred and thirty nine is the conscience to our selfish crime,
God didn’t screw up when he made you,
He’s a father who loves to parade you.

Yes he reigns, yes you reign, yes you reign,
For there is only one true God,
But we’ve lost the reins on this world,
Forgive us all, forgive us please,
As we fight for this broken world on our knees.