🌍 What is God’s Sovereignty and Why Does It Matter?

✨ Sovereignty = Control ✨

God is in control of all things, and nothing controls him. 🛡️

💔 But it hurts down here.

A God who is in control of all things can feel almost harder to wrestle with than a God who’s doing his best on any given day. 🤔

For God to be all-powerful and good, while we have a world this messy, is a real problem every religion has to confront.🤯

👑 As a sovereign God, He could, with just a blink, send anyone who would ever make this world worse straight to hell.

Then, he’d have a perfectly ordered creation where nothing bad ever happened.

❤️ But, that’s not love.

Instead, we find Him dwelling in the midst of creation. 🌱

✝️ He climbed down into this pit, suffered on the cross, and died for you.

God’s sovereignty is a gift because he uses it in mercy to save and to forgive. 🎁

We don’t need to control God because He’s already merciful and good. ✅

There’s a bajillion things wrong, and he hates it, too. That’s why He died on the cross, taking the world upon Himself. 🌍

God doesn’t use His sovereignty to bully us (like we would) but to die for us. 💔➡️❤️

He was not coerced. He did it willingly. ✨

Even when things seem messy, know that He’s not hiding or abandoning you. 🕊

He’s right where He’s promised to be — in control and for your good.

Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Content Executive.

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