This morning I was up earlier than usual and was reading Psalms 1 and 2. They are bookends for the Book of Psalms. Plsalm 1 opens with the unforgettable contrast between the two types of people. One man is blessed because he delights in the law of Lord; he is God’s man. The other man is cursed by God because he is the wicked man, a scoffer, a self-absorbed man.

Then comes Psalm 2. It is a foretelling of the Lord’s Anointed, the Christ. David writes of how the wicked rage and plot in vain (v. 1). David writes of how kings of the earth “take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed” (v. 2).

If you did not continue reading, you might think that all is lost, that evil wins, that darkness prevails.

But the turn comes in verse 4: “He who sits in the heavens laughs.” Please don’t miss that turn. That’s the key.

God has His Anointed. That’s what Christ means.

Encouragement: Satan does, let us freely admit, win some battles. But the ultimate war is won by God and His Anointed. God dashes evil like a potter’s vessel (Psalm 2:9b, ESV). Evil men go on and on plotting and scheming for now, but their destruction was written long ago, and their end is active wrath, unless and until they are reconciled unto God via the Anointed.

I do not know where you are today spiritually, but let me encourage you with this from sacred Scripture: God sees the nations raging; God sees how the wicked set themselves up as kings who shake their fists at the Holy One, and care only about themselves; God sees and God laughs (Psalm 2:4). Let us do good, trust the Lord, and be found faithful. God will set all things to rights. We need only have courage and trust the Lord.