The Ultimate Sovereignty of God
I was in the middle of a tough season in 2021 into 2022 where I felt God teaching me about His Sovereignty. Over the years, my knowledge and insight into the Sovereignty of God has been growing.
God showed me that as a Sovereign God He does what He wants, with whom He wants and when He wants.
I cannot force or coerce God into doing my bidding. That is what makes Him God.
What inspired this post was listening to a video interview with the older Odukoya siblings talking about grief and loss and I was just blown away by the insights shared.
We might busy ourselves in trusting and praying to God. Yet, according to James 4:3 we want God to do our bidding on a certain issue, in a particular way and in a specific timing but that is not how God operates.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
James 4:3 (NIV)
We operate in fear rather than speaking the language of faith. As Kingdom citizens we have certain attitudes and mindsets that guard how we live. We have different principles. God’s Sovereignty means we worship and bow before His supremacy.
I remember when God spoke those words to me that He is Sovereign. I actually cried real tears. It was incredibly humbling and very painful because I was also going through a real tough period and I felt like God had abandoned me.
I felt like God was making a fool out of me and causing me to make a spectacle of myself. I felt like I was a shadow of myself and to some extent I was reveling in self pity because I felt like life had delt me such bad cards. And in the middle of this emotional turmoil was God. I couldn’t believe that my loving Father who is able to do and undo chose to allow this circumstances to happen to me. How did I get here?
So, if you are in a situation right now where you are trying to reconcile the sovereignty of God in the midst if very painful situations, we must understand that our pain does not negate the supremacy of God. The truth is that God is supreme AND God also loves us. The fact that something painful is happening to us does not mean that God does not love us. It is hard to accept because we do not see the full picture. But part of His sovereignty and providence is that God knows the end from the beginning. He knows what the best pathway, the best series of events for our lives to ensure that we look more like Him. He is more concerned with our character becoming more like Christ than in our current comfort. God is not wicked. He will never put on us anything more than we can handle. More than what the Holy Spirit can see us through. We just have to lean into the help and support found in the person of the Holy Spirit.
For God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love God and who are called according to His purpose for their lives.
Back to the Sovereignty of God. He will do as He pleases because He is a good God, and we must determine that the outcome for us will be good.
Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4 (NIV)
To some the rod and staff appears as a tool for discipline and a weapon and for others it is a tool for safeguarding and for shepherding their safety. Our Father won’t use His sovereignty to wrong us.
Our situations cannot replace the truth that God is good and that God loves us. He is committed to His plans for our lives and for ensuring we meet that expected end He had planned for us since the beginning of time. Please be encouraged. God is too faithful to fail us. I pray for strength, wisdom and insight to worship and appreciate God’s sovereignty in the midst of all our situations, in Jesus mighty name. AMEN
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Mo 🙂
A young woman on a mission to discovering purpose, to inspire growth and contribute to the Kingdom mandate. On the blog we are all about learning and growing and this is done through writing on topics from Faith, Education, Music, Food, Travel and so much more... (Romans 12:2) View more posts
