Perspective

I was reading in Psalm 74 this morning, and I kept rereading these verses:

12 Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the sea monsters [4] on the waters.
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
15 You split open springs and brooks;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.
16 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
17 You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you have made summer and winter.

It's important for me to remember this as I teach, interact with students, and hang out with friends. These verses say so much more than God is in control of my life. They reassert that my King is from of old, from the beginning, and has been working in the world from the beginning. His plan for his people has been in place from the beginning and will be in place in the end.