God is sovereign. Let's start living.

I don't think I can really grasp the sovereignty of God. At least, it's really hard to. And I think that most of us don't. It's one of those core, core things to Christianity that we often pass over, but if truly understood, would radically change our lives. My life.

God is sovereign over everything. He is in control. His judgment is sovereign and final; the grace and forgiveness that He gives us is absolute. His love is absolute, unchanging.

Over the conference this weekend (AMI Revolution) , Dr. Steve, a missionary in Kenya, gave two messages concerning God's sovereignty. He brought up the point that we tend to stop putting God in the picture when other people get involved. He used the analogy that if we're walking along a beach, and a coconut falls on our head, we are pretty likely to see that as an act of God. But if someone throws the coconut at us and it donks us on the head, it's just a random guy throwing a coconut as us.

It's also hard to understand God's sovereignty over the context of time. In the book of Esther, God spent her entire life, her entire upbringing; years and years, to prepare her and put her in the position to do great things for God. If I really believe in God's sovereignty, do I believe that He's been working behind the scenes for my entire life, for a time such as this? Or, that I am still being prepared to do great things for God?

Over the weekend, my faith has taken huge leaps in these two areas. And with this in mind, I think I'm ready to finally give over everything to God, piece by piece. Though I have been over the years, I think it's about to pick up. How can anybody not? God has constantly been working in our lives, whether we know it or not; He has been planning amazing things for us, but we are blind to it. We chose comfort over discomfort, take the easy, cookie-cutter way through life, rather than choosing to live radically for the biggest, most powerful, most loving, compassionate person we've ever met. How can we NOT respond by giving our entire lives?

I think a large reason that I became a Christian is because life is pointless without it. There is no purpose. We simply exist, live a life, meet some people, lose some friends, and then die. But you see, God has a plan for my life. I'm not meant to let the world pass me by, but I, we, are meant to live a life that is radically different from the rest of the world, we are meant to be part of God's infinitely large redemptive plan. He has given me a purpose; what specifically that is, I have yet to discover. I simply know that I will lead a life of worship. No matter what I do, it will be in worship to God.

God is sovereign. His plan will be done no matter what, with or without us. Do I want to be a footnote in God's salvation history, or do I want to be a main player? I hope to be a main player, but of course, I only could according to God's will. No matter what His plan to me, I want to be able to live life knowing that I did everything in my power to worship God, by loving Him and loving my neighbors.

(Of course, with all this in mind, there is a constant paradox and struggle to grasp God's sovereignty in relation to us having free will; though God has a master plan for everything, we are still able to make our own choices, to some extent.)

Let's go God. Greater things have yet to come, greater things are still to be done...