The Relevance of God's Word


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Sovereignty of God His inescapable Omini-presence and Nearness!



He rules the Heavens and the Earth. In all the events of Life: from our personal life, Family life, Business, Government, Judicial, Scholastic, Jobs, recreation and all activities under the sun: He rules and His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven!

I am reminded of How God Rules over current Rulers and leaders of Government in Proverbs 21:1 "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases. 2 All a man's ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.

Though things around us do not make sense at times, Fear not! He is on His throne Ruling, Revelation 21:5 "...and Behold, I am making everything New!

Look all around you, Jesus is on His Throne and He Reigns! The only Sovereign! The Sovereign King, the Lord God Almighty! The Lord Jesus Christ! The only Sovereign King of Glory! To whom all other inferior sovereigns will give an account, through out every age and generation!

No one can escape God's presence He made the eyes and ears, you cannot escape His notice of us in our Daily living, in whatever we do! He Hems me in, behind and before me.

Christ is Risen! He lives in me, He goes before me, He is above me, He is below me, He is behind me, He is in front of me, He is with Me!
Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

The sovereignty of God perspective leads to Isaiah's Cry of being undone before the Throne of Grace



If you are seeking after God through sovereignty of man thinking, then you will end up worshipping a graven image made out of your own imagination. When you seek after God through Sovereignty of God centered thinking, you will cry like Isaiah 6:5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

To seek after God, be ready to be undone of all vain speculation and be emptied of self, get ready to be broken as you See our Sovereign King, the Lord God Almighty! The Lord Jesus Christ! The only Sovereign King of Glory!
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation. (Calvins Inst. 1.4.1)