A few months ago I was taken to an operating room. Two nurses started rubbing my breasts vigorously with an antiseptic solution, getting ready for surgery. Within minutes, a surgeon was making an incision in my chest to implant a life-saving device. I needed surgery because a genetic disease in my heart put me at high risk of a massive heart attack. My arms and legs were fully bandaged; therefore, I could not move. An uncontrollable tremor ran through my body. Anxiety began to take over my heart. I remember that in those days I tried to remember as many scriptures about God’s sovereignty, providence, and promises of peace as I could. I was trying to calm down. I knew God was sovereign. I had preached about God’s sovereignty, but at the time, I didn’t feel That God was in control. My emotions took hold of me. Despite my anguish at the time, the Word of God and his glorious promises flooded my troubled heart. God’s peace, like a warm blanket, soothed my anguished soul.
No doubt God is sovereign. It is an immutable truth presented throughout the scriptures. R. C. Sproul has often reminded us that “there is no dissident molecule in the universe that can eventually disrupt God’s plans. “[1] It fully controls its entire creation. Nothing works independently of our great God, when we say that God is sovereign, we declare that He has absolute authority over all his creation, that his government extends over every rift and every corner of what He has created. means that there is nothing in the vastness of the universe that can alter your government or your will.
- In reference to the supremacy of Christ.
- Paul reminded the believers residing in Colossus: “For in him all things were created.
- In heaven and on earth.
- Visible and invisible.
- Whether thrones.
- Sovereignty or principalities or powers.
- Through Him and to help Él.
- Es first and foremost.
- Has everything been left? (Cl 1:16-17).
- Everything in the universe.
- Visible or invisible.
- Exists for Christ and for his glory.
- Doesn’t the universe implod because Christ sustains all things by the word of his power?(Heb 1.
- 3).
- Are these sublime realities too high for our fragile minds to understand?but nevertheless.
- They are true.
- It is the central and ruling truth that guarantees that it will do what it decides to do.
- That it will keep all its promises.
The unexpected events of life happen and put our emotions on a roller coaster. Our understanding of the truth of God’s sovereignty may fail when our lives seem to become uncontrollable. We are affected by a crisis, we weaken our confidence in God’s sovereignty. We do not necessarily doubt their sovereignty, but right now our emotions make us feel as if we do not fully control our situation.
Let me encourage you with some reflections on the great blessing and comfort of God’s sovereignty when you struggle with feelings that lead you to doubt that He is sovereign about your situation.
We are created by our Creator with a wide range of emotions that are part of the human experience. These emotions are indicators, similar to the meters on the dashboard of our car. Emotions give us a reading of the state of our hearts. They can reveal whether we trust God. Feelings of doubt, anxiety, or frustration are indicators that our confidence may be in the wrong place. Our challenge, even as children of God, is that our emotions are linked to our fallen humanity. Although we are increasingly in line with the image of Christ (Romans 8. 29), our emotions can sometimes present us with a false reality; sometimes, when we feel that God is not sovereign, we must remember that this feeling is an indicator of what is happening in our hearts and is not that God’s sovereignty or providence has diminished.
Because God is sovereign, nothing in our lives has no direction; we know that we will go through difficulties, suffering and difficult circumstances; how terrible it would be to face these things without the certainness that God controls them and that they have a purpose in allowing them This would make sadness and suffering meaningless. Unfortunately, many Christians go through their lives believing this lie.
The truth is that there is no need to come upon us that God cannot use for his glory and our good. “Do we know that all things contribute to the good of those who love God, of those who are called according to their plan?? (Rom 8. 28). ? All things?It means everything. It means good and bad things. All things are done by God to bring us into conformity with the image of Christ and for the glory of Christ. Only a sovereign God can do. This is one of the most comforting truths we can appropriate to soothe our hearts in times of severe hardship.
When your emotions lead you to doubt, you must recognize God’s sovereignty over all life. This reminder will provoke worship and deepen your affection for him. Would we worship a God who has no control? I think you’ll agree that a god who is not completely sovereign in all things does not deserve our worship. AWPink wrote, “Who can love this truncated and pitiful deity?A god, whose will is resisted, whose designs are thwarted, whose plan is annulled, has no right to be the Divinity. So instead of being worshipworthy, doesn’t he deserve nothing but contempt?[2] This is not a description of our God. The Psalmist said, “In heaven is our God and does he do all he wants?”( Salt 115,3). Our God is supreme, sovereign, and worthy of our worship. When our feelings fluctuate and you lose control, focus your worship on our great and glorious God, who controls.
You will go through times when you will feel that God is not sovereign, but rejoices, holy of God, it is. Don’t trust the feelings that will disappoint you, but put your trust in the immutable reality of God’s sovereignty.
[1] R. C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith (Wheaton, Ill . : Tyndale House, 1992).
[2] Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, n. a. ), 28.