'God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform', words by William Cowper,one of the greatest hymns ever written,and one of my favourites .In Deuteronomy29 v 29, we read.'The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.' The word of God clearly teaches that God is sovereign as Tozer puts it,'He rules His creation, He is all knowing,all powerful, and absolutely free'. It raises many questions, which we cannot answer, the why's are many ,and often come out of painful situations. There is not often answers to those why's, we are very limited ,we know so much, but we also know so little.People may ask why did such and such a thing happen,and often we just have to say we don't know.We come back to that statement that the secret things belong unto God, whose ways are past finding out Romans11 v33. The doctrine of the sovereignty must be accepted by faith, a faith and trust in God who loves us, and who will bring all things through to a conclusion.A.W.Pink writes,'Divine sovereignty is not the sovereignty of a tyrannical Despot, but the exercised pleasure of One who is infinitely wise',and I would add loving and kind.The sovereignty of God is not there to confuse of perplex us but to reassure us,that in spite of all the why's,He is in control.
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