No king is saved by the size of his army;
   no warrior escapes by his great strength.

-- Psalm 33:16

I have tended to think things like this may be true for the big stuff...you know, like in war...national stuff.  But what about the small place where I live?  Is the place where I live really under the same kind of control?  The same kind of interest...on God's part?  But, where does such logic come from?  Isn't it usually the case that if the big stuff is covered, that the small stuff is, too?  Because it's the big stuff that we use (or gets used against us) to believe that things really are out of control; that the strong are getting away with things (and, somehow, at my expense)...because of their power or strength.  And, so, again under such logic, my small situation is even more susceptible to the power of the strong.

But, even though this view is pervasive, it remains illogical, deceptive even.  Nothing happens outside of God's purview, not even the activity (successes) of the powerful...corporate or individual.  Nothing happens that God does not allow.  That may not be comforting at times when my sense of things is 'at risk'.  But that really is only my perception...because the truth is that nothing, no one, does anything...on his own.  Big...or small.  At war...or in my small and normal life.

I am grateful for this simple truth about kings and warriors.