Today’s Scripture: Psalm 115:3

“Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.”

Confidence in God’s sovereignty in all that affects us is crucial to our trusting him. If there’s a single event in all the universe that can occur outside of God’s control, then we cannot trust him. His love may be infinite, but if his power is limited and his purpose can be thwarted, we cannot trust him. You may entrust to me your most valuable possessions; I may love you and my aim to honor your trust may be sincere. But if I don’t have the power or ability to guard your valuables, you cannot truly entrust them to me.

Paul, however, said we can entrust our most valuable possession to the Lord: “I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day” (2 Timothy 1:12, NIV). “But,” someone says, “Paul is speaking there of eternal life. It’s our problems in this life that make me wonder about God’s sovereignty.”

It should be evident, however, that God’s sovereignty does not begin at death. His sovereign direction in our lives even precedes our births. God rules as surely on earth as he does in heaven. He permits, for reasons known only to himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of his revealed will. But he never permits them to act contrary to his sovereign will.

Our plans can succeed only when they are consistent with God’s purpose, and no plan can succeed against him (Proverbs 16:9; 19:21; 21:30). No one can straighten what he makes crooked or make crooked what he has made straight (Ecclesiastes 7:13). No one can say, “I’ll do this or that,” and have it happen if it is not part of God’s sovereign will (James 4:15). (Excerpt taken from Trusting God)

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