THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
Beloved, I submit to you that we cannot carry out any plan apart from God’s will. The Bible leaves no doubt about this truth. James says it so clearly in the following passage:
James 4:13-15 AMP “Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.””
God is in control; He is sovereign. He does whatever pleases Him and determines whether we can do what we have planned. This is the essence of God’s sovereignty: His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creations. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.
Confidence in the sovereignty of God in all that affects us is crucial to our trusting Him. If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God’s sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.
Paul said we can entrust our most valuable possession to the Lord. In 2 Timothy 1:12, he said, “This is why I suffer as I do. Still, I am not ashamed; for I know Him [and I am personally acquainted with Him] whom I have believed [with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in the truth of His deity], and I am persuaded [beyond any doubt] that He is able to guard that which I have entrusted to Him until that day [when I stand before Him].
When we study the Bible and know the character of God, and come to an understanding of His all encompassing sovereignty over everything He created, the only response that would make sense is to trust Him.
According to Bridges, 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.
In support the statement — God never permits people to act contrary to His sovereign will—let us consider the following passages of Scripture:
In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. (Proverbs 16:9)
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. (Proverbs 19:21)
There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD. (Proverbs 21:30)
Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? (Ecclesiastes 7:13)
Who can speak and have it happen if the LORD has not decreed it? (Lamentations 3:37)
The reality is that:
We make plans, but those plans can succeed only when they are consistent with God’s purpose.
No plan can succeed against Him.
No one can straighten what He makes crooked or make crooked what He has made straight.
No emperor, king, supervisor, teacher, or coach can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not first decreed to either make it happen or permit it to happen.
No one can say, “I will do this or that,” and have it happen if it is not part of God’s sovereign will.
This aspect of God’s sovereignty should be an encouragement, and should stimulate us to trusting God with our lives.
Is someone “out to get you”? That person absolutely cannot execute his malicious plan unless God has first allow and decreed it.
The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign God…. All evil is subject to Him, and evil cannot touch His children unless He permits it. God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.
(Ref: Trusting God Even when life hurts, Jerry Bridges)
NOW LET US PRAY
Sovereign God, thank you for holding the control of the whole world in Your capable hands.
Lord, help us to trust You with every life experiences, knowing that You sovereignty covers us. Abide with us today.
In Jesus Christ’s powerful name I pray. Amen 
Have a blessed day 
