Sovereignty and Choice
1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may
devour: 9
Whom resist stedfast in
the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your
brethren that are in the world.
Many, in a desperate hour, have prayed, “Lord we know that you
are in control . . .” Indeed, we
born again believers understand and are often comforted with the knowledge that
our Lord is sovereign and in absolute control.
Anything that God desires to do he is able indeed to do.
But sometimes, actually often, we the children of God use the sovereignty
of God as a tool of avoidance. We
use it to avoid doing what we know we really ought to do in a given situation.
It is almost as if we think, somewhere in the back of our minds, “Well, I
know what God really wants me to do, but I’m not going to do.
If God really wants it done He can just do it through someone else.”
After all God is sovereign.
There has been a long standing struggle between Calvanism and
Arminianism. In brief, Calvanism
holds that God is sovereign and that no one can ever do anything that is outside
of the will of God. Arminianism
holds that man has a free will to the point that God cannot do anything against
the will of people. The truth is
that God is Sovereign and as an omnipotent (All-Powerful) God can do absolutely
anything He desires to do and we human beings are utterly helpless to stop Him.
However, God has revealed that He, by His will, has given mankind a
freewill and the responsibility of making choices and acting on those choices,
and by His will God will not rob people of their choices.
What this means is that God has willed that mankind should make choices
in life and stand responsible for their choices.
Hence, when we choose something, whether right or wrong we are
acting in keeping with God’s sovereign will because God has decided that you
should make choices in life. The
problem many Christians are making, when faced with difficult choices, is that
they pray for God’s will to be done and then they sit off to the side and watch
their culture avalanche toward hell and away form God.
Our Heavenly Father is able to intervene in life and force righteousness
and holiness to prevail. The Bible
prophetically reveals that one day, in the future, God will do just that.
Heaven is all about those who have
chosen God through Christ living in the eternal goodness and blessedness of God
for all eternity.
But in this sinful creation, God, as a part of His plan, is
still offering choice to mankind, including the choice of rebellion, self-will,
and self destruction. The planned
remedy for this landslide of human corruption and misplaced choices is the
testimony and ministry of God’s people.
The Church of our Lord Jesus Christ must stand up and
steadfastly resist
the sinful lure and corruption of our culture.
God reveals,
1 Corinthians
1:21
21 For after that in the wisdom of God
the world by wisdom knew not God,
it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Christians cannot and must not sit back in their homes and
say, “Well, God’s will will be done.”
If you do you need to realize that indeed God’s will will be done and
evil will prevail, because God’s will is that people should choose, and the
Church of Jesus Christ should influence their choices through their testimony
and ministry. We must resist
steadfastly in our homes, in our schools, in our communities, in our local,
state, and federal elections, and in our world as a whole.
Your involvement will reveal your choice and place in God’s sovereign
plan.
Are you Resisting
Steadfastly!
“All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
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