Do you ever ask the question, whose in charge?,whose in charge in your home? ,people often say this when they have a complaint,and when things go wrong they want to know who is in charge. President Truman had a motto on his desk which read,'The Buck Stops Here',for the President is supposed to be in charge, well that may be true,but in spite of his great powers,there is only so much, he or any government can do.Where does God fit into everything, if we lean upon our own understanding,we may give in to unbelief and a spirit of cynicism take hold of us.We will never fully understand the truth,that God is sovereign,that He rules over all the affairs of life,looking back over the wreckage of history,we may say how can it be possible,that he rules.?.Well the fact is, if He does not rule then he is not God.In the midst of the ruins of Jerusalem ,Jeremiah declared ,'The Lord has done what He planned' (Lamentations 2 v 17 ),yes God has a plan for this world ,and for you and me, and it will be fulfilled,nothing can stop God's purposes.In Philippians 1 v 6, Paul reassure the Christians that God is doing a wonderful thing in their lives ,'that He (God) who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ'.A. Motyer, writes , 'God rules. The pressures of life are in the hands of the Potter who is also our Father; the fires of life are those of the refiner. He does not abandon the perfecting process to others; nor is he ever; in his sovereign greatness , knocked off course by the malpractice of evil men or by the weakness of good men. 'God is not a man, that he should lie, or a son of man,that he should repent. Has he said,and will he not do it?.Or has he spoken, and will he not do it'. He will do what he says, because he is in charge.
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