Transcending those concerns we are conscious of what little creatures are, living on a tiny planet on the edge of a universe of unimaginable vastness. He really cares for me. I'm the apple of his eye. I am poor and needy but the Lord thinks on me. We do not receive that encouragement from anything in the world.
Christians are nonentities in the eyes of men and women.
Wherever we look, to the four points of the compass, we see kings rising, extending their boundaries, battling with other kings and declining. That is the picture of the future that Daniel is shown in chapter 11. No kings from north or south will usher in a world government or achieve Utopian peace. That is what the Lord Jesus Christ declares when he speaks of the future in Mark 13 and also in Matthew 24. You will hear of wars and rumours of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.