Thoughts for another day







September 21, 2010






Today's verse: Is. 14:27. For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? (KJV)


(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)






How many of us know that God is Sovereign and there's none who dare go against what is ordained by Him, for all they will get is failure and defeat. What God has purposed, what He has willed is what is to be, for it cannot be changed. If at all anyone can change it, it is He and He alone. By His decree, the earth came to be and by His Word everything was formed. All things came to be by the sheer figment of His imagination and they work according to His plan. If you but carefully observe, you'll notice that all of creation works according to His plan.






We may think we're in control but everything works, no matter how strange a notion it may seem in our ears, by His design and that includes terrorist activities or other insurgencies, for we don't know His purposes, but for sure, there's something He wants to bring out of the chaos, just as He brought the earth out of primordial chaos. The sole owner of the universe knows what He is doing, even if it means innocent die and many are subject to untold misery and pain. This may sound strange to you, but it has a biblical precedence. Jer 20:4 says, I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. Now who decreed the destruction of Israel? The Lord Himself; yet Nebuchadnezzar must have thought it was he, strange isn't it. As for the cruelty bit, of destroying infants and other as an act of God, I'll only say, if He has created, doesn't He have the right to destroy? Who are we to sensitize Him, who actually gives us the power to do things?






One thing I always keep in mind is the fact that God loves us and times are when life becomes unbearable. We don't know why; we pray and get no answer; we're intensely hurt yet God doesn't do anything… Just as Jesus cried to His Father, but still had to die on the Cross and had He not died, how would we be saved? So no matter what He decrees, remember it's for our good. This thought may just be obliquely related to our Scripture, yet it's good to know God's ways and also know that when He has a purpose, it will happen. None can thwart it, however much they try for God's purposes are always fulfilled no matter how long it takes or how painful the journey.