Grappling with God’s Sovereignty

Isaiah 55:9 – For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

God’s sovereignty and His purposesRomans 8:28

Tragedies and injustices fit in the process of God’s good purposes whether or not I ever understand.

God is Sovereign!

Job 42:2 "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

Psalms 135:6 Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Isaiah 43:13 "Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"

Isaiah 46:10 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure';

Daniel 4:35 "All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, 'What have You done?'

Romans 9:19-21 For who resists His will?" On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?

James 4:15 … you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.“

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

God’s sovereignty and His purposesRomans 8:28

Tragedies and injustices fit in the process of God’s good purposes whether or not I ever understand.

In spite of my sin God uses me for His good purposes when I truly love him.

God may bless me for his purposes in spite of my sin, not because of my righteousness.

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.