The Sovereignty Of God

I believe, in a person's journey of faith, one will have to come to a point of realization that in spite of how we see the world and what we desire to see transpire in our lives - God is Sovereign. 

I believe there is too much structure and design, by The Designer - God, to thwart the idea of meaningless existence and world cultures with useless laws and morals because of a non-sovereign God.

What does it mean that God is Sovereign? God's all-knowingness, all-power and ever-present presence - all flow from His Sovereignty. 

"The fact that God is sovereign essentially means that He has the power, wisdom, and authority to do anything He chooses within His creation. Whether or not He actually exerts that level of control in any given circumstance is actually a completely different question. Often, the concept of divine sovereignty is oversimplified. We tend to assume that, if God is not directly, overtly, purposefully driving some event, then He is somehow not sovereign. The cartoon version of sovereignty depicts a God who must do anything that He can do, or else He is not truly sovereign.

God has the ability to do anything, to take action and intervene in any situation, but He often chooses to act indirectly or to allow certain things for reasons of His own. His will is furthered in any case. God’s “sovereignty” means that He is absolute in authority and unrestricted in His supremacy. Everything that happens is, at the very least, the result of God’s permissive will. This holds true even if certain specific things are not what He would prefer. The right of God to allow mankind’s free choices is just as necessary for true sovereignty as His ability to enact His will, wherever and however He chooses."

(https://www.gotquestions.org/God-is-sovereign.html)

I think the sovereignty of God is viewed much of the time from a grand, cosmic scale. While that has its place, in order for any being to truly be called sovereign, that person must include everything - even the fine details. My fellow Christians and non-believers alike, the devil is not in the details, the personal, sovereign God is in the details.

Control is an illusion. The acceptance of the lie that we can be Sovereign because we disobeyed and ate some special fruit was the beginning of the The End for humanity. Now, managing of anything is the best we can do. Scripture magnifies God's supremacy in Colossians 1:16-17 -

"For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."

The balance that is terribly lacking has progressively worsened since humanity disobey, commonly referred to as The Fall. The balance is not between good and evil, the balance comes in gaining the proper perspective and position on The Personal, Sovereign God.

Over the physical creation, God is sovereign (Genesis 1-3). Over the spiritual realm, God is sovereign (1 Chronicles 21:15, 27; Matthew 13:41;). Over humanity as nations and individuals, God is Sovereign (Acts 17:26-28; Deuteronomy 32:7-8). Over all that constructs existence and meaning, God is Sovereign.

However, throughout Scripture, there is no escaping the picture of God as personally involved in the affairs of humanity and all His creation. And God would not be truly Sovereign if He were not personally invested. In the Old Testament we read in Psalm 37:23 - "The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in Him;". Personal involvement.

Then the ultimate, intimate involvement was Father God sending His one and only Son to pay the cost of humanity's redemption - death upon the cross. John 3:16 spells this out perfectly for us - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Christians and non-believers will experience eternal frustration about God's sovereignty - 

1. if we do not surrender to God that which we do not understand, 
2. if we do not surrender to God our partial discernments and 
3. if we do not surrender to God even the concepts we seem to grasp. 

The writer of Hebrews injects boldness into the believer as he underlines the fact that the Christian has an approachable, personal, sovereign God. Hebrews 4:16 says -

"Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."

Through Christ Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit - Father God's presence, Father God's ear and hand are always present. I encourage my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to believe more in, trust more in and know more of not only the all-in-all side of God's sovereignty, but God's personal care of us as well, then, I believe we will begin to get a more complete picture of The Sovereignty of God.