QuickThoughts: Sovereignty In Trials

God designed, planned, orchestrated, and authored the most unjust tragedy in human history: the crucifixion of His only Son, Jesus.

So many Christians accept this glorious truth, yet reject that He may have also done the same for those tragedies in our own lives?

There is a level of arrogant entitlement behind the belief that God merely “allows” bad things to happen to them and others, so they need to explain it away and make apologies for God. “God surely wouldn’t cause calamity that brings me pain!”

Yes. Yes, He does. All throughout Scripture we read about God’s discipline and judgment, both for believers and unbelievers, and it is very often painful (or even fatal).

God does not apologize for Himself. He does not make excuses for His sovereign plans. We shouldn’t either.

Instead, we need to recognize that in His sovereignty, even when it hurts, “all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)

His purposes are rarely known to us, especially beforehand. Whatever trials and tribulations we encounter, we can be confident in knowing it was by the Father’s hand, for His glory, and for our good!

📘 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or turmoil, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:35 LSB

Note that nothing we encounter, as followers of Christ, is encountered apart from the love of Christ. His love is IN the trials He sends.

Rest in Him, my brothers and sisters. In the midst of great pain and suffering, rest on the promise that He works ALL things for good. He has a plan and it is perfect. Make no excuses or apologies for what God has done, but rejoice in knowing it was done out of love for you.