Wheel of Fortune
As Solomon proclaims in the Book of Ecclesiastes, the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the strong, but time and chance happens to us all. This perception comes to us all who are "under the sun."
The rotating Wheel of Fortune from our earthly view on the rim indeed seems like chance and circumstance, and we read the word "ROTA." But looking back we read "TORA," the very word of God, and we see that God was always sovereignly in control.
The four living creatures of Ezekiel's vision and at the throne of heaven in Revelation 4 represent the four gospel presentations of Christ as Lion, Lamb, Son of Man, and Son of God. Here in the clouds, the living creatures hold open books, showing that only from heaven's perspective is the book of all time open and that only the Lamb that was slain is worthy to open the scroll in Revelation 5.
The Egyptian Sphynx here holds a sword, sitting balanced on the rim of the wheel. We do have these moments when we discern the mysteries and twists of fate, but our identity is not here on the rim in the cycles of descent and ascent of the snake and the jackal-headed figures. We must center ourselves in the divine peace where we are seated in the heavenly places.
The hub of the wheel is the eye of the storm, the hiding place amidst the shifting sands of time. The LORD is my refuge and strength, an ever present help in times of trouble. I will not fear though the earth give way and though the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.
The lot is cast into the lap but its every answer is from the LORD.
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
The LORD frustrates the plans of the peoples, but the counsel of the LORD stands forever and the plans of his heart through all generations.
The LORD is my portion and my cup. He has made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places for me.
"I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD, "to give you a future and a hope."
The rotating Wheel of Fortune from our earthly view on the rim indeed seems like chance and circumstance, and we read the word "ROTA." But looking back we read "TORA," the very word of God, and we see that God was always sovereignly in control.
The four living creatures of Ezekiel's vision and at the throne of heaven in Revelation 4 represent the four gospel presentations of Christ as Lion, Lamb, Son of Man, and Son of God. Here in the clouds, the living creatures hold open books, showing that only from heaven's perspective is the book of all time open and that only the Lamb that was slain is worthy to open the scroll in Revelation 5.
The Egyptian Sphynx here holds a sword, sitting balanced on the rim of the wheel. We do have these moments when we discern the mysteries and twists of fate, but our identity is not here on the rim in the cycles of descent and ascent of the snake and the jackal-headed figures. We must center ourselves in the divine peace where we are seated in the heavenly places.
The hub of the wheel is the eye of the storm, the hiding place amidst the shifting sands of time. The LORD is my refuge and strength, an ever present help in times of trouble. I will not fear though the earth give way and though the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.
The lot is cast into the lap but its every answer is from the LORD.
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
The LORD frustrates the plans of the peoples, but the counsel of the LORD stands forever and the plans of his heart through all generations.
The LORD is my portion and my cup. He has made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places for me.
"I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD, "to give you a future and a hope."
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