It’s easy to say that we would trust God when a child is born with a defect or a loved one suffers with a disease. We say that we would continue to serve God even if a tornado destroyed all we own. It’s an entirely different thing to actually trust God as those things are happening. Read More ...
Government policies and procedures may not be what we want them to be, but we can be assured that God is sovereign over national, political, and military affairs. We must believe that his purposes are being fulfilled through these instruments. Read More ...
We can trust that God has a plan, and he is working out that plan by causing people to think and do various things. We don’t know how it’s all going to work out, but we trust that God is active in controlling human thought and behavior for his own purposes. Read More ...
We readily admit that the sovereignty of God is a difficult, even troubling doctrine, especially when we are facing pain, sorrow, disaster, and disappointment. To know that God ultimately is behind all the events of our lives can be difficult to accept. It’s sometimes almost easier to believe that God is not in charge. It might be easier to believe that it was random chance or pure bad luck than that God has brought it or allowed it. Read More ...
We must believe that God is upholding, directing, disposing and governing all things to the end for which they were created. That’s what the Bible clearly and repeatedly teaches—God governs all things. God is in control of all events in the universe; there are no maverick molecules. Read More ...