GOD CONTROLS EVERYTHING

October 23 

Yahweh has established His throne in the heavens, And His kingdom rules over all.  Psalm 103:19

During WWII, one of America’s mighty bombers took off from the island of Guam headed for Kokura, Japan, with a deadly cargo. Because clouds covered the target area, the sleek B-29 circled for nearly an hour until its fuel supply reached the danger point. The captain and his crew, frustrated because they were right over the primary target yet not able to fulfill their mission, finally decided they had better go for the secondary target. Changing course, they found that the sky was clear. The command was given, “Bombs away!” and the B-29 headed for its home base. Sometime later an officer received some startling information from military intelligence. Just one week before that bombing mission, the Japanese had transferred one of their largest concentrations of captured Americans to the city of Kokura. Upon reading this, the officer exclaimed, “Thank God for that protecting cloud! If the city hadn’t been hidden from the bomber, it would have been destroyed and thousands of Americans would have died.” God’s ways are behind the scenes; but He moves all the scenes which He is behind. 

Two of the great biblical examples of God’s sovereignty are Joseph, son of Jacob, and Esther. God controlled each situation in the lives of both Joseph and Esther. If we, as God’s people, have a good grasp of the sovereignty of God, then fear, anxiety, fretting and anger will greatly diminish in our lives. To know that God sees all and has all power and controls all, should bring peace of heart and comfort to my soul. These should remind me that nothing will happen to me today without passing through my Father’s hands because He alone is the all-seeing, all-powerful, sovereign God. 

Ike Graham