- “The LORD sat as King at the flood; Yes, the LORD sits as KING FOREVER.” {Psalm 29:10}
- “ The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the LORD; He guides it wherever He pleases.”-{Prov 21:1}
- “Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.”-{Psalm 135:6}
- “And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.”-{Matthew 28:18}.
- “But God knew what would happen, and His prearranged plan was carried out when Jesus was betrayed. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed Him to a cross and killed Him. But God released him from the horrors of death and raised him back to life, for death could not keep him in its grip.” -{Acts 2;23-24}.
God is in control, even when it doesn’t seem like it. For example the cross of His Son, how out of control that situation seemed, “But God..” had planned this just as He had the Resurrection! God is in control, always in control. For Job, it seemed everything was out of control, the loss of his children property, the physical suffering, but chapter 1 shows us God was in control all along. Paul in 2 Corinthians 12 says he was given a “thorn,” he is not speaking of a sliver of wood under his skin, that was agitating but the word he uses was that ofa peg for a tent, a wooden peg, sharpened at one end and was used to impale or torture someone. He was in severe[pain and yet God answered when he asked three times to remove the thorn told him “My grace is sufficient…” God was imparting Himself to meet him as the way the sentence is written grammatically is “Sufficient for you is the Grace of Me!” and Paul embraced Him and His power is unleashed in or weakness as Paul learned and he gloried in the LORD because of His provision. God was in control. He was given the thorn we read to keep him humble, from spiritually exalting himself because of the great revelations God had given him. When Paul was thrown into prison and an earthquake shook it and the jailer was about to commit suicide as a result God used Paul to share with him and he and his family were all saved! God was in control over Paul’s arrest, the earthquake, it hitting the prison, the preserving of life and the situation of the jailer and Paul having been saved was now sharing with the jailor and his family the Gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ. God was in control of it all!
God is in control, always in control, working out His will.
Take hope that God is in control and working all things together for good to those who love Him and are the called! As He was with Joseph, Habakkuk, Job, The Cross, Paul, Suicidal Jailor, so He is too in your and my life. We live by faith not my sight!