God is Sovereign

(I provided a lot of material for you to read in your One God packet so I will keep the blog as brief as possible.)

Here are a couple of quotes by A.W. Pink from his book The Sovereignty of God.

"The sovereignty of God. What do we mean by this expression? We mean the supremacy of God, the kingship of God, the Godhood of God. To say that God is sovereign is to decalre that God is God...the most high, doing according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, so that none can stay His hand or say unto Him, What have you done? (Daniel 4:35).

"The sovereignty of the God of Scripture is absolute, irresistible, infinite. When we say that God is sovereign, we affirm His right to govern the universe, which he has made for his own glory, just as He pleases. We affirm that His right is the right of the Potter over the clay: (in order that) he may mold that clay into whatsoever form He chooses, fashioning out of the same lump one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor. We affirm that he is under no rule or law outside His own will and nature, that God is a law unto Himself, and that he is under no obligation to give an account of His matters to any."

Though your world, my world or your teenager's world be falling around us God is not alarmed. He is never surprised. There are no unexpected emergency's to which God must react. God "works all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11). All things are subject to his immeadiate control. God is not a distant spectator nor an impotent creator whose plans are always foiled by us or Satan. God never has a plan B. There is only His plan. His purpose and plan cannot be "thwarted by the creatures of His own hands."

One last quote by Pink as to our attitude towards God's sovereignty.

"The sovereignty of God is something more than an abstract principle which explains the rationale of the Divine government: it is designed as a motive for godly fear, it is made known to us for the promotion of righteous living, it is revealed in order to bring into submission our rebellious hearts. A true recognition of God's sovereignty humbles as nothing else does or can humble, and brings the heart into lowly submission before God, causing us to relinquish our own self-will and making us delight in the perception and perfomance of the Divine will...Truly to recognize the sovereignty of God is, therefore, to gaze upon the Sovereign Himself."