Sovereignty with Certainty

I came across a quote on facebook this morning in my memories and it's one of my favourites. I was going to just share it again, but I started writing and it got too long and felt a bit too personal. By putting it in a post, you have to click into my life to read it and somehow that feels better to me. 

Sometimes when we are hurt by people, it's harder to see God's sovereignty. All you can see are those people, the hurt and the wreckage that was left behind. It can leave you stuck, without perspective and holding a ball of yarn. All mixed up in the yarn is confusion, feelings of inadequacy, hurt, questions, disappointment (etc) AND the knowledge that God is always good and that His path is always the right one. It can be hard to reconcile those two sides. Sometimes it can take years for you to find the end of the string to start untangling. In the mean time, you can feel like you are just standing there frozen, holding your yarn while life goes on without you. But as much as you want to untangle and let go, it's too scary. In your mind, letting go could invalidate your wreckage and that doesn't feel right. But putting God, man and hurt in it's proper place is always wise. It's hard and exhausting, but there is so much beauty and blessing in the process.  

This quote by Benjamin Warfield reminds us that despite people, despite any hard circumstances present or past, we can fall back on God's wise and kind sovereignty with certainty. He is reigning on His throne and He will make all things right in His time. This was such a beautiful reminder on my road to healing and as I go through the process of untangling and releasing to the Lord.

"In the infinate wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into it's proper place, in the unfolding of His eternal plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering or without its peculiar fitness in the working out of His purpose. And the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory and the accumulation of His praise."