TRUSTING THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God."
(Romans 8:28)

We are living in perilous times! It is a time in which the status of professing Christians is going to be proven! Many profess with their mouths that they are Christians; however, not very many that I know well are actually "followers of Christ" (which is what the designation of "Christian" means).

Oswald Chambers in "My Utmost For His Highest" message for December 18 says it well:

"It is only the loyal soul who believes that God engineers circumstances. We take such liberties with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men.
"To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, and that is to our Lord. Suddenly God breaks up a particular set of circumstances, and the realization comes that we have been disloyal to Him by not recognizing that He had organized them. We never saw what He was after, and that particular thing will never be repeated all the days of our life. The test of loyalty always comes just there. If we learn to worship God in the trying circumstances, He will alter them in two seconds when He chooses.....
"We will be loyal to work, to service, to anything, but do not ask us to be loyal to Jesus Christ.... Our Lord is dethroned more emphatically by Christian workers than by the world. God is made a machine for blessing men, and Jesus Christ is made a Worker among workers.
"The idea is not that we do work for God, but that we are so loyal to Him that He can do His work through us—‘I reckon on you for extreme service, with no complaining on your part and no explanation on Mine.’ God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

ARE WE TRULY TRUSTING IN GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY? ARE WE REALLY AVAILABLE TO SERVE HIM EVEN AS HE USED HIS OWN SON....UNTIL DEATH? ARE WE WILLING TO SEEK THE TRUTH, AND EXPOSE THAT WHICH IS NOT?

I don't know about you....I only know that I have no choice other than to be what He has called me to be....so easy in times of affluence and prosperity and peace, but most definitely not "politically correct" in the days we are now living in.

I believe the Word of God when it says:
"God, who made the world and everything in it... is Lord of heaven and
earth.... He gives to all life, breath, and all things. ... [I]in Him
we live and move and have our being." Acts 17:23-26, 28

"Therefore ... let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily
ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the
joy that was set before Him endured the cross..." Hebrews 12:1-2

EITHER WE BELIEVE GOD IS GOD....OR WE DON'T! WE CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. THERE'S NO PICKING AND CHOOSING IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE!

I CHOOSE TO TRUST THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD BECAUSE I BELIEVE

GOD IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS!
GOD CAN DO WHAT HE SAYS HE CAN DO!
I AM WHO GOD SAYS I AM!
I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST!
GOD'S WORD IS ALIVE AND ACTIVE IN ME!