Saturday, May 10, 2014

The Supremacy of Divine Sovereignth

UV 1087/10,000 The Supremacy of Divine Sovereignty

All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as He pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back His hand or say to Him,” What have you done?”
Daniel 4 v 35

The Lord can bring back the entire humanity to dust if He merely withdraws His breath. He uses time, fortunes and death as great levelers to show the mighty their place. Even the most powerful human beings are powerful only to the extent the Lord has let them be. Even the richest, the strongest, the most influential have their soft and vulnerable points that can reduce them to nothing in no time. The Lord uses His awesome power to replace rulers, to change seasons, to humble the arrogant, proud and wicked. Nebuchadnezzar though a mighty King under whom Daniel served realized that he was nothing before the God whom Daniel served. On this planet, nations and their leaders are the most powerful and sovereign. But even the nations and their armies are like drops in a bucket before the Lord God. The smallness of the earth compared with the stars and the universe proves this point. Only in our humility before the Lord lies the possibility of enlargement, upliftment or greatness. We need to pray continually, “ less of me, more of you.”

The will of God is supreme, unquestioned, irrevocable. Once He has decided no man or force can stop. The one whom God has planted no man or force can uproot. Nothing happens by chance –either the Lord has allowed it to happen or He has willed it to happen. The only way we can approach the Lord God in His awesome power and glory is on His own terms- in holiness, humility, reverence, love and faith. The only appropriate response before such an awesome God is to surrender all to Him.

What are we and what have we except what the Lord has done. Our abilities, talents and opportunities are God’s gifts. We have nothing in our power to cause these to grow or flourish. The gourd plant that God caused to grow over Jonah and then caused to be eaten up is a wonderful metaphor for all that God has given or caused in our lives. It is a temporary shade that God has given us for our comfort- even our material resources, our position or our contacts. Realizing our fragility and vulnerability vis- a- vis God’s awesomeness and amazing grace and power will always keep us full of reverence, wisdom, understanding and keenness to do nothing but the will of God. People who say they trust God and yet are worried about many aspects of their lives have either under-estimated the capacity of God or the commitment of God and try to fill the imagined gap with their own ineffectual contributions.

Prateep V Philip

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