“GOD IS SOVEREIGN!”

Psalms 135:4-6                      (ESV)

“4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for HIMSELF, Israel as HIS own possession. 

5 For I know that the LORD IS GREAT, and that our LORD IS ABOVE ALL GODS. 

6 Whatever the LORD pleases, HE DOES, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, in the seas and all deeps.”

When someone experiences physical death we often hear, “I’m sorry for your loss”, or simply “I’m so sorry”.  In reality, what are we to be sorry about?  We can testify about what we have seen in their life as a testimony as to where they are going, but the thief on the cross would probably not have a lot of people looking for him “this day in Paradise”.  Although we can say things such as that “we know where our friends have gone”, we still are hurt and grieved by seeing them leaving “this world”.  Maybe it is “unknown” about where they are, and maybe it is that we are left behind, the fact is our hearts hurt when a loved one dies.  

Psalms 116:15 says “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of HIS saints”.  Then why do we grieve and miss those who experience physical death before we get to?  Our CREATOR says it is precious in HIS sight when we die, IF WE ARE ONE OF HIS SAINTS!  The Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:8 that “.....we would rather be away from the body and at home with the LORD”.  So why ON EARTH do we so often “wish” someone back to “this world” when they have already completed their assignment?  Might it be that we only have earthly eyesight, and HE is looking from Heaven???

JESUS left HIS Throne in Glory to sacrifice HIMSELF for the sins of all mankind so we can experience eternal life in HIM.  When we are Born Again, we are left here to “....be MY witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”  Not until “our appointed time” to GO HOME arrives, and only HE can determine that time, we should be read to join HIM.  GOD gives us the very air we breathe (Isaiah 42:5) and has determined our number of days (Psalms 139:16) and ONLY HE HAS PREDETERMINED when HE should call us home!!

Maybe we can’t grasp that because “.....MY (GOD’s) thoughts are not your (our) thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways and MY thoughts than your thoughts”. (Isaiah 55:8-9)!  Hebrews 11:6 reminds us that “....without faith it is impossible to please HIM, for whoever would draw near to GOD must believe that HE exists and that HE rewards those who seek HIM”.  Former President Ronald Reagan once said “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."  Evidently I have to EXPERIENCE some “answers” rather than physically hearing them.  ALMIGHTY GOD has shown me over the past few days that just because I am can’t understand or make sense of HIS actions doesn’t mean that HE doesn’t love me, or that HE is punishing me, or most especially, that HE isn’t Sovereign!  HE wants to grow my FAITH IN HIM!!!  

ALMIGHTY GOD IS SOVEREIGN!!!