If I did not know and truly believe that God is in control over this world, I think I’d be a basket case. Just the election season alone is enough to give a person the heebie-jeebies. God is in perfect control over all His creation.
We can get ourselves in a tizzy over just about anything. The price of gas, the way someone treated us, whether our dreams for the future will come to pass. We worry about things
we have no control over.
I love Nancy Leigh DeMoss’ definition of God’s providence, which is similar to His sovereignty.
What is providence?
It’s God’s watchcare over His creation. It’s the fact that God sees ahead what is going to happen. God ordains ahead, and God goes before His people to make provision for those circumstances before we ever get there.
As I lay on the hammock in our backyard the other evening, I looked at the high fluffy clouds in the sky. I thought about God’s promise,
My thoughts are completely different from yours. And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
Those clouds were awfully high in the sky and God’s ways are awfully different from mine. So when I don’t understand, I try and remember that God’s ways are beyond mine. He works in the unseen and on the inside, when I want to see change on the outside. He is not indifferent, uncaring, unjust or powerless. If you can trust that He is sovereign—even in your pain and confusion—you’ll conquer doubt, one of Satan’s greatest footholds in your life.
We don’t know the future, but know that God is already there, He loves you and He is working for your good in all things.
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