-The Sovereignty of God Over Every Hour of Your Life
Reading: Acts 2:22-24, Job 1:20-22, Psalm 139:13-16
Acts 2:22-24 records Peter declaring that Jesus was delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, yet put to death by lawless hands, and then raised by God.
Job 1:20-22 shows Job responding to devastating loss by worshipping God and refusing to charge him with wrongdoing.
Psalm 139:13-16 describes God as the one who knit each person together and ordained all their days before one of them came to be.
The cross was not a tragedy that caught God off guard. The enemies of Christ could not lay a hand on him until his appointed hour, and at that hour he laid down his life willingly. This same sovereignty governs your life. Your suffering is not random. Your days are numbered and known. The same God who restrained the hands of Christ's enemies and orchestrated the redemption of the world is the God who holds your circumstances in his hands today. You may not understand what you are walking through. You may not understand it on this side of heaven. But you can trust the one who does.
Reflection Question: In what area of your life are you struggling to trust the sovereignty of God right now?
Practical Application: Take one situation in your life that feels out of control and write out a prayer surrendering it specifically to the sovereign care of God. Return to that prayer throughout the week.
Acts 2:22-24 records Peter declaring that Jesus was delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, yet put to death by lawless hands, and then raised by God.
Job 1:20-22 shows Job responding to devastating loss by worshipping God and refusing to charge him with wrongdoing.
Psalm 139:13-16 describes God as the one who knit each person together and ordained all their days before one of them came to be.
The cross was not a tragedy that caught God off guard. The enemies of Christ could not lay a hand on him until his appointed hour, and at that hour he laid down his life willingly. This same sovereignty governs your life. Your suffering is not random. Your days are numbered and known. The same God who restrained the hands of Christ's enemies and orchestrated the redemption of the world is the God who holds your circumstances in his hands today. You may not understand what you are walking through. You may not understand it on this side of heaven. But you can trust the one who does.
Reflection Question: In what area of your life are you struggling to trust the sovereignty of God right now?
Practical Application: Take one situation in your life that feels out of control and write out a prayer surrendering it specifically to the sovereign care of God. Return to that prayer throughout the week.
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