~ GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY OVER PEOPLE
In the book of Exodus. The Israelites were the cruelly oppressed people for over 400 years in Egypt, forced to “make bricks without straw.” Suddenly God intervenes in their lives and Pharaoh says, “Get out!” But the Israelites had no resources for making the journey, for starting over again; they were poverty-stricken. God had foreseen this problem, however, and had made plans to overcome it. He had said to Moses:
And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians. (Exodus 3:21-22)
Exodus 12:35-36 says, The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
The Egyptians willingly surrendered their belongings because of God’s favor on the Israelite.
The text says “the LORD had made [them] favorably disposed toward [the Israelites].”
God in some mysterious way moved in their hearts so that they, of their own free choice, did exactly what He planned for them to do. God sovereignly intervened in the hearts—the desires and wills—of the Egyptians to accomplish His purpose for the Israelites.
Beloved, sometimes we find ourselves and our futures seemingly in the hands of other people. Their decisions or their actions determine whether we get a good grade or a poor one, whether we are promoted or fired, whether our careers blossom or fold.
When we find ourselves seemingly in the hands of someone else, when we desperately need a favorable decision or a favorable action on that person’s part? We can trust God that He can and will work in the heart of that individual to bring about His plan for us.
There is the instance when someone is out to harm us, to ruin our reputation, or jeopardize our career: We can trust God to intervene in the heart of that person so that he does not succeed in his evil intent.
We can trust God. He does sovereignly intervene in the hearts of people so that they make decisions and carry out actions that accomplish His purpose for our lives. Yet God does this in such a way that these people make their decisions and carry out their plans by their own free and voluntary choices.
God does not always restrain the wicked and harmful actions of others toward His people. The story of Joseph in Genesis 50 is an example to this truth.
When Joseph’s brothers decided to sell him into slavery, God did not restrain them. Neither did He restrain Potiphar’s wife when she maliciously and unjustly accused him. But in God’s time He turned those circumstances around. God was orchestrating the wicked acts of people exactly as He planned in order to accomplish His purpose through Joseph. In the end, Joseph could look back over all the difficult events and say to his brothers, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives” (Genesis 50:20).
Bible’s consistent teaching that God is able and does move upon the hearts and minds of people to accomplish His purposes. Yet it also seems equally clear from these passages that God does this without violating or coercing their wills, but rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.
(Ref: Trusting God Even when life hurts, Jerry Bridges)
NOW LET US PRAY
Sovereign God, thank you for Your sovereignty over people. The mysteries of how you work on hearts of people to accomplish Your purposes belong to You alone. Lord we honor You for that. Thank You for the examples that are in Your Word. Father, help us to trust in Your sovereignty over people when we experience injustice in the hands of other people, knowing that You would work everything for our good and Your glory in Your own time.
In Jesus’ mighty name we pray. Amen 
Have a blessed day 
