God's Got It!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Victorian, Calvinist, Baptist minister) spoke these vivid words in a message entitled "Divine Sovereignty" on May 4, 1856:
“There is no attribute more comforting to His children than that of God's Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, they believe that Sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children ought more earnestly to contend than the doctrine of their Master over all creation—the Kingship of God over all the works of His own hands—the Throne of God and His right to sit upon that Throne.”
Where did Pastor Spurgeon get this thinking and why should you and I as God’s children embrace it?
“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen” (Romans 11:36).
God “works all things after the counsel of His will” (Ephesians 1:11b).
“After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you” (1 Peter 5:10).
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6).
“I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted” (Job said to the Lord in Job 42:2).
Any way you look at it, the doctrine of God’s sovereignty is a profound blessing to every believer no matter what circumstance we may find ourselves in because “Faithful is He who calls you and He will bring it to pass” (1 Thessalonians 5:24).
You and I cannot lose being under the commanding, providential rule of God. We will sorrow, grieve, suffer, offend, fear, worry, regret, neglect, and so on, but “we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son” (Romans 8:28-29a).
Our God who “does whatever He pleases” (Psalm 115:3) “is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).
He’s got this and He’s got you covered.
Pastor Jeff