God Is Sovereign – The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1)

God Is Sovereign

The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1)

Nothing can stand against the purposes and power of God.

“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’ you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt….” Deuteronomy 7:17, 18

That God was sovereign must have been clear to the people of Israel. The Law of God reveals the sovereign power and might of God in three ways.

First, God is sovereign in that He created the world and all things in it according to His purposes and for His pleasure. God by His mighty power spoke the creation into being. He did not need the creation to fill some lacuna in His own being or existence; rather, He freely chose to create it, and He created it according to His design and power.

He is sovereign over everything, and He is sovereign over nothing. Nothing existed when God began to create. Yet God obliterated nothing by filling it with everything that was good according to His purposes and plan. God’s people should not be discouraged when “nothing” exists which seems desirable or possible according to God’s purposes or plan. God is sovereign over “nothing.”

Second, the people of Israel would have observed the sovereignty of God in His ability to command the creation to accomplish His pleasure. The sea parted, rocks gave forth water, poisoned wells were cleansed, food fell from heaven, plagues of creatures descended, the river divided, the hearts of men melted—all at the command of God. Doubtless, thoughtful Israelites would have seen in such displays a power that commands the creation at all times and in all its creatures and powers. God is sovereign in creating and commanding and sustaining what He has made.

Third, God is sovereign in delivering His people. Not even the greatest nation of its time could stand against God when He determined to call His people unto Himself. And no nation would be able to resist this God, or His people, as they undertook His holy and covenantal plan to create a new nation and to live a new worldview before the pagan peoples of the earth.

The Three-in-One, eternal, holy God of the Covenant is sovereign over everything that is. And we can believe that He stands ready to exercise His sovereignty in the outworking of that worldview He has promulgated, beginning in His Law.

Here is a lovely meditation on the sovereignty of God from Fellowship Member Jim Weaver. You’ll want to check this out: (http://www.ailbe.org/members/blog?start=60.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.