10/25/2025
"All of life, as we know it, began with these words: "In the beginning God created..." (Genesis 1:1) The singular proposition or truth of this verse is the Sovereignty of God. The Infinite God does as He wishes. Yet, this absolute is problematic for finite creatures such as ourselves.
On the one hand, there is what I will to be, and on the other hand, there is what God wills to be. As believers, sometimes the two desires are convergent: they come together in agreement. But, oftentimes they are divergent: they move apart in disagreement.
To believe, to trust, to have faith in God — biblical faith, salvific faith, Christian faith — I must be of the mind of Christ. (Philippians 2:5-11) Before His crucifixion, Jesus experienced an existential tension in anticipation of the Cross. He prayed three times to the Father that the cup of the Divine Wrath of God would pass from Him so that He might not have to drink from it. His conclusion as He petitioned the Father was this: "Nevertheless, not as I myself will but as You will." (Matthew 26:39 taken from 26:36-46) Our LORD, our Savior and our Shepherd placed Himself under the will of the Father.
The hardest reality for believers to accept is that the LORD is our Shepherd. We shall never be in a state of lack for THAT WHICH WE NEED — irrespective of circumstance. (Psalm 23) If God does not give "it" to me, then the absolute is that I do not need "it."
ALL THINGS (even the unpleasant, the distasteful, the disastrous and the undeniably evil) work together for good to those who are the called according to purpose. (Romans 8:28) However, the angst and frustration we routinely experience are fundamentally rooted in our finite and equally flawed ideology of "the good." Jesus affirmed to the rich young ruler that there is only One who is good and He is God. (Mark 10:18 taken from 10:17-24) Therefore, if all things are working together for good, then they are working together in accordance with the Nature, Character and Sovereignty of God.
As I write these words, I am seated. The entire weight of my body rests upon my chair; to the extent that, my body existentially assumes the posture and shape of the chair. Faith requires that I recline the entire weight of my thoughts, my feelings and my desires; my words, my deeds and my actions; my spirit, my psyche and my body upon the Sovereign God, so that I will increasingly assume the spiritual posture and shape of God the Son, the LORD Jesus the Christ. Consequently, faith does not consist of what I believe. Faith consists of what God has said. Faith is not believing in what I believe. Faith is believing in what God has said. (Romans 10:17)
The problem is that a majority of us do not have the faintest idea of what the Scriptures say — and therefore mean — and what God has said — and therefore means — from Genesis to Revelation. And, if the foregoing be true, then we are most oftentimes walking by sight and not by faith. (2Corinthians 5:7)"
Taken from "If God Is The Alpha, I Cannot Be The Omega: Human Volition Is Not Free; It Is Finite!"
