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)

Eternity's Calamity call, no more hope at all!

Mark 9:43-50
"If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. 45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.47And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48where
" 'their worm does not die,
and the fire is not quenched.' 49Everyone will be salted with fire.
50"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."

No rest in sins dominance and Control!

How can you rest content in life tolerating sin's control at the same time? A soul is restless until it finds deliverance from sin and death. Will you deny your soul rest in the presence of God, by chasing after the temporary resting places of pleasures, riches, fame and worries and cares for status in this life?

Why starve your souls hunger and thirst? Why ignore its desperate plea and cry for mercy and deliverance, as you go on in deception chasing after things that do not last?

What will you do when your resting places give way with no footing to stand on? What will you do when your temporary resting place gives way over the shallow ice? Your foot will slip and you will fall with no footing to hold you up for all eternity! The ice will break and you will fall with nothing to hold onto, when you held onto the things of this life, and treasured the things of this life in light of Eternity! It is like walking on thin ice--then Crack!!! the ice breaks! What will you do when it gives way with nothing to hold on to at the sudden strike of Eternity's calamity call!Then there will be no more hope at all!


Life is temporary, and there are temporary resting places only! Until you find your permanent resting place eternally in the presence of God by resting in the Grace of God through Christ! Or, eternally away from the presence of God in eternal Death where the flame of torment is unquenchable and the temporary resting places have dissolved.

The Advenger of His Insulted Majesty

Exodus 34:8 “Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished” Habakkuk 1:13 “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. “
"Sin will not escape with impunity; He will be the avenger of His insulted majesty!" Wow! Well put, when I think of God's Holiness I am forced to look beyond my near sightedness and into the presence of God's Holy Majesty. God delights to have His image in His people, but He cannot dwell with Sin; how we are far off to not see the presence of His holy majesty to hate sin in us! Yet the Avenger of His Holy Majesty to punish His only Begotten Son, on my behalf, so I can dwell in His holy majestic Presence!
Iniquity is hateful in his sight...it will not escape with impunity...he will be the avenger of his insulted majesty. (John Calvin Inst. 2.8.3)

Self-Centered Theology is Blinding to Obeying God's Word

"Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" -JESUS in Matthew 15:3.

Man Centered Theology--Where Preference is given to Self righteousness over Christ's Righteousness. This is a practice of giving deference to traditions and self centered merits in trying to please God, over the Grace of God and Merits of Christ for Salvation and gaining acceptance before God.

When we rely on our merits, we end up creating our own rules and standards in disregard to the Commandments of God, thus, we transgress against God's Grace; living by our merits and always falling short of God's Glory-- Instead, we should empty ourselves and humble our self before the throne of Grace and rely on Christ's Merits for our Salvation, and in doing so, we will find Christ Righteousness fulfilling the commandments of God in our lives.

The Law of our Being...the pursuit of the Knowledge of God

Hosea 6:3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains,like the spring rains that water the earth."

If all are born and live for the express purpose of learning to know God, and if the knowledge of God, in so far as it fails to produce this effect, is fleeting and vain, it is clear that all those who do not direct the whole thoughts and actions of their lives to this end fail to fulfil the law of their being. (Inst. 1.3.3)

I like that when John Calvin writes "The express purpose of learning is to know God"...when we live our life and fail to live for that end, we fail to fulfill the law of our being...Awesome!..."the law of our being"..."The law of our being is to know God...any other pursuit is breaking the law of our being! ...well put, "the law of our being..."

How the Many Look to themselves for their merits due them

13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. Matthew 7:13
John Calvin [I]f we look only to ourselves and consider what is due to our merits, no ground of hope remains, but we lie forsaken of God under eternal death. (Inst. 3.2.1)
How sad for those who look to their Merits, no ground of hope remains and they do not even see their condition! How many the multitudes, which look to themselves and consider what is due their merits, instead of looking to the merits of Christ for Salvation!