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Sovereignty Of God
By Rick Long | January 23, 2009
Sovereignty if God essentially means that God has the absolute right to do with His creation as He desires. Afterall, it’s HIS- He made it and He alone sustains it.
Psalm 115:3, “But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.”
Isaiah 46:10, “Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure;”
Dan.4:35, “And all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, What hast Thou done?”
Still though many folks wonder “If God is sovereign and can do what He wants in the world, then why doesn’t He get rid of sin? Why doesn’t He heal all sickness? Why doesn’t God save more people, or all people? Why does He allow terrorists to strike? Why do the wicked prosper? etc.” There are distinctly personal questions too: “Why did my baby die? Why is it that when I pray for someone to be well, they stay sick or seem to heal naturally later? Why is it my friend (or me) lost my job and am having so much trouble finding work? Why am I still suffering from (fill in the blank) when I ask the Lord to deliver me from it?” The questions can go on and on.
As Christians we have to face the fact that these questions don’t have easy answers. We are told that in spite of what we see, God is in control, that the answers are sometimes beyond us, that we need to trust God, that these things are the result of sin in the world and that God is letting it have its course, etc. Though these answers are all true, they do not always comfort because our pain can sometimes overwhelm our faith.
Sovereignty, especially relating to salvation, is not an easy issue. Nor should it be. It’s designed to elicit faith. I don’t completely understand it, but I must believe it because it is clearly in Scripture.
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