Our Sovereign Lord Over Life and Death
Death, the very utterance for some will produce a response of terror and fear. This should not be
so for the Christian for death is the very gift we have from God that allows us and our loved ones
to enter into eternal fellowship with Him in Heaven. The chief dilemma with death is that it
separates us so completely from the ones we love so dearly. We are left behind, as it were,
waiting for the time when we will be reunited, but that is the difficulty the words “time” and
“waiting.”
For some there is no real assurance the one they loved was a Christian and the hope of seeing
that one again, not as certain. The reality of heaven and hell is very real, heaven is just as real
as hell. The topic of heaven and hell is immense and one of which I will not attempt to tackle at
this juncture. For now, to address in humility the reality of the sovereignty of God over life and
death, and fully aware I will not have all the answers is sufficient.
For me, when my 15 year old son went to heaven way ahead of my personal schedule, I had
questions for God, numerous questions. I experienced shock and awe, I was rebellious towards
Gods, and I was sinful in my anger toward Him. I knew that my only hope was with God, for
indeed He had my son, captive if you will in heaven, and I needed answers and comfort. I
repented of my sinful thoughts, this didn’t happen over night, I wasted some time in my rebellion,
but when I had come to the end of myself I sought truth through His Word. Perhaps some of you
have gone through a similar experience and have wondered some of these same questions.
One of the questions that frequently arises when there is an unforeseen death is, “Where was
God in all of this, was He caught by surprise, did He plan this event, is He really in control of this
universe and His creatures?”
People will often try to offer us condolences when tragedy hits by giving us reasons for death,
such as:
“Accidents just happen, they happen to everyone.”
“This is a lesson for you from God, for you were faltering in your faith.”
“Satan took this life before his/her time.”
“People got saved at the funeral, that is why God took this life.”
These “helpful” people can cause us to question our faith and our God. “Maybe God is not in
control, and if He isn’t, who or what is?” “ Is the earth just spinning around by a God who set up
natural laws and walked away?” “ Is it true, does Jesus really know when a sparrow falls to the
ground and if He does, does He care, or just know?” These are questions that can haunt our
minds, but we must focus our minds on what the Bible teaches us regarding God and His
attributes.
The Bible tells us God is absolutely sovereign over death and life. We have just as much control
over our death as we had over our birth--none! Man does not decide who will live and who will
die--God does. Man cannot live one second beyond the time God has determined, nor can he live
one second less.
Exodus 23:26 "There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of
your days.
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.
Matthew 6:27 "And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?”
Acts 17:26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the
earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation
God's powerful hand reaches out to take life and to give it. He takes away our breath and we die,
just as He breathes into us and gives us life. There is then no such thing as accidental death.
God is sovereign over our very breathing and has providential control over the length of our lives.
He is continuously at work in every aspect and during every moment of our lives.
Lamentation 3:37-38 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
Daniel 4:35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to
his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his
hand or say to him, "What have you done?"
God’s ways are often unfathomable to us. We are limited and finite, He is infinite and limitless.
His ways often puzzle us since He does not always function according to what our human wisdom
or desires would dictate. But then we are the creature and He is the creator.
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Deuteronomy 32:39 "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I
make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Job 14:5 Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have
appointed his limits that he cannot pass
According to Jesus, God exercises His sovereignty in minuscule events, even the life and death of
an almost worthless sparrow. Jesus’ point being, since God exercises
His sovereignty in regard to sparrows, most certainly He will exercise it in regard to
His children.
Matthew 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the
ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not,
therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
While it is true God’s love for us does not protect us from pain and sorrow, it is also
true that all occasions of pain and sorrow are under the absolute control of God. Since
God controls the life of the sparrow, it is reasonable to acknowledge His control over the
circumstances that affect us. God does not walk away and leave us to the mercy of uncontrolled
random or chance events. For someone to say, “God had no part in accidents, illness or
tragedy,” is to say God was apparently looking the other way, when this event occurred. Do we
really believe our God, the sustainer and creator of all that exists, can be taken as it were by
surprise, caught off guard?
Many people are unwilling to accept the fact that God is in control because they don’t
understand what He is doing and choose to substitute the “doctrine of chance” for
the doctrine of divine providence. Though we often do not understand Gods ways
when trying to reconcile tragedy, His sovereignty remains nevertheless at work in all
our lives. God’s sovereignty does not begin at death, His sovereign direction in
our lives even precedes our births from the womb.
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of
them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.
Galatians 1:15 a But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb…
God rules on earth as He does in Heaven. He permits for reasons known only to Him, people to
act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits then to act contrary to
His sovereign will. Apparent accidents or malevolent acts against us have still been allowed by
our God, they have come through His permissive will into our lives and as we submit ourselves
and situations to Him, He will work through them conforming us into the image of His Son. Our
response to life trials and tragedies is how we glorify God or don’t glorify Him. There is no life
circumstance that He is unable to provide His strength to overcome as we seek Him and thereby
use that very circumstance through our response for His glory.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.
Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that
will stand.
Proverbs 21:30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.
Lamentations 3:37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
One of the dilemmas we often have with the sovereignty of God is that it frequently does not
“appear” that God is in control of the circumstances of our lives. However, God does as He
pleases, and works out every event to bring about the accomplishment of His will.
Isaiah 14:27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched
out, and who will turn it back?
Isaiah 43:13 Even from eternity I am He, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act
and who can reverse it?
Isaiah 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'
It is difficult for us to appreciate the reality of God sovereignly doing as He pleases in
our lives, because we often do not “see” God doing anything. Instead we see with our finite eyes
events seemingly randomly occurring, but we fail to see God at work.
In every event of our lives God is in control accomplishing what as He pleases
– not apart from these events, or in spite of them, but through them. Just as
Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, yet Joseph recognized it was God that was
acting through his brothers actions for His purposes to be accomplished.
Genesis 45:8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to
Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about
that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Our lives are cluttered with the phrase “if only,” “if only I had done this,” or “if only that had not
happened.” But God has no “if only.” There are no contingencies with God, no unforeseen
events. God never makes a mistake, God has no regrets. We can trust God because He is
trustworthy.
Psalm 18:30 This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all
those who take refuge in him
The Bible teaches that God is sovereign over both the “good” and the “bad.”
Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider-- God
has made the one as well as the other So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.
Isaiah45:7 I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, and I am the
LORD, who does all these things.
These passages clearly state what is taught in principle throughout the rest of the
Bible. God controls both the good and the bad. God has not looked the other way or
been caught by surprise when adversity strives. He is in control of that adversity,
directing it for His glory and our good. We need to discipline our minds to trust God, through
knowing who our God is as He has revealed Himself through His Word. Trusting God is not a
matter of our feelings but of our will. We may not “feel” like trusting God when adversity strikes
but we can choose to do so, even when we don’t “feel” like it. That act of our will to trust must be
grounded on faith and conviction based on the truth of His Word. God carries out His own
purposes without ever being thwarted. We must cling to this truth in the midst of hard times and
tragedy. God’s honor is to take precedence over our feelings, and we honor God by choosing to
trust Him even when we don’t understand what He is doing or why He has allowed this sorrow in
our life. Granted it is much easier to trust in the sovereignty of God when things are going well,
and far more difficult to trust when adversities strike. God has a purpose for the grief He brings or
allows to come into our lives. God never wastes our pain. He always uses it to accomplish His
purposes, and for His glory and our good. We can trust Him when our hearts are broken.
Trusting God in the midst of heartache and pain will help us accept the suffering as coming from
His hand, thereby we can be confident that He is lovingly accomplishing His will in our lives
conforming us to the image of His Son. God's purposes are often beyond our understanding, and
the Lord simply does not explain or seek to justify His ways to humankind, nor should He, for He
is the sovereign Lord over all creation. It is not necessarily comfort or happiness that is the good
that God works in our lives, but conformity to the likeness of His Son.
Romans 8:28-29 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who
love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He
also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn
among many brethren;
Habakkuk 3:17-19 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce
of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd
in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. GOD, the
Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.
When we are in the throes of heartache we can be tempted to doubt God’s love. The irrefutable
proof of God’s love for us is at the cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God loved us when we were totally unworthy, and there is nothing whatsoever within us that
would call forth His love. We shouldn’t allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds rather we
must search for ways to let the truth of God rule our minds and our emotions to be subservient to
truth. This doesn’t mean we should seek to bury our emotional pain in a stoic-like attitude, there
is a time and season for tears, but we must actively resist allowing that pain to cause us to sin and
lapse into erroneous thoughts about God. God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed
over and over in Scripture. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’
s love, nor does faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to
us through our union with His beloved Son.
1 John 4:9-10 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son
into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but
that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
There is no doubt that God is in control, there are no accidents with God. God is still on His
throne working all things according to His plan. There is nothing that escapes His sight and
nothing that occurs outside His sovereign will.
Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Watching the evil and the good.
Jeremiah 23:23-24 "Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "And not a God far off? "Can a
man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?" declares the LORD. "Do I not fill the
heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.
Psalm 93:1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The LORD has clothed and girded
Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
Be of good courage Christian, steadfastly look to your Father in Heaven when going through the
valleys, He is always with you. If you need to repent of your sinful attitudes towards God do so
immediately, don’t wait, and why prolong your personal agony? Read His word, cling to His
promises, seek out the counsel of mature steadfast Christians to encourage and lift you up during
this season of your life. Keep seeking your Heavenly Father for we will live eternally with Him,
and He will wipe away every tear. We will worship with all the saints and angels in fullness of joy
for all eternity.
Psalm 16:11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In
Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Revelation 19:6 Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of
many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our
God, the Almighty, reigns.
Revelation 21:4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any
death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."
Please feel free to email me with any questions or prayers, or support you might need at this time
in your life.
Send email to Debra at letters@gloryworks.com
Death, the very utterance for some will produce a response of terror and fear. This should not be
so for the Christian for death is the very gift we have from God that allows us and our loved ones
to enter into eternal fellowship with Him in Heaven. The chief dilemma with death is that it
separates us so completely from the ones we love so dearly. We are left behind, as it were,
waiting for the time when we will be reunited, but that is the difficulty the words “time” and
“waiting.”
For some there is no real assurance the one they loved was a Christian and the hope of seeing
that one again, not as certain. The reality of heaven and hell is very real, heaven is just as real
as hell. The topic of heaven and hell is immense and one of which I will not attempt to tackle at
this juncture. For now, to address in humility the reality of the sovereignty of God over life and
death, and fully aware I will not have all the answers is sufficient.
For me, when my 15 year old son went to heaven way ahead of my personal schedule, I had
questions for God, numerous questions. I experienced shock and awe, I was rebellious towards
Gods, and I was sinful in my anger toward Him. I knew that my only hope was with God, for
indeed He had my son, captive if you will in heaven, and I needed answers and comfort. I
repented of my sinful thoughts, this didn’t happen over night, I wasted some time in my rebellion,
but when I had come to the end of myself I sought truth through His Word. Perhaps some of you
have gone through a similar experience and have wondered some of these same questions.
One of the questions that frequently arises when there is an unforeseen death is, “Where was
God in all of this, was He caught by surprise, did He plan this event, is He really in control of this
universe and His creatures?”
People will often try to offer us condolences when tragedy hits by giving us reasons for death,
such as:
“Accidents just happen, they happen to everyone.”
“This is a lesson for you from God, for you were faltering in your faith.”
“Satan took this life before his/her time.”
“People got saved at the funeral, that is why God took this life.”
These “helpful” people can cause us to question our faith and our God. “Maybe God is not in
control, and if He isn’t, who or what is?” “ Is the earth just spinning around by a God who set up
natural laws and walked away?” “ Is it true, does Jesus really know when a sparrow falls to the
ground and if He does, does He care, or just know?” These are questions that can haunt our
minds, but we must focus our minds on what the Bible teaches us regarding God and His
attributes.
The Bible tells us God is absolutely sovereign over death and life. We have just as much control
over our death as we had over our birth--none! Man does not decide who will live and who will
die--God does. Man cannot live one second beyond the time God has determined, nor can he live
one second less.
Exodus 23:26 "There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of
your days.
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.
Matthew 6:27 "And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?”
Acts 17:26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the
earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation
God's powerful hand reaches out to take life and to give it. He takes away our breath and we die,
just as He breathes into us and gives us life. There is then no such thing as accidental death.
God is sovereign over our very breathing and has providential control over the length of our lives.
He is continuously at work in every aspect and during every moment of our lives.
Lamentation 3:37-38 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
Daniel 4:35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to
his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his
hand or say to him, "What have you done?"
God’s ways are often unfathomable to us. We are limited and finite, He is infinite and limitless.
His ways often puzzle us since He does not always function according to what our human wisdom
or desires would dictate. But then we are the creature and He is the creator.
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Deuteronomy 32:39 "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I
make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Job 14:5 Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have
appointed his limits that he cannot pass
According to Jesus, God exercises His sovereignty in minuscule events, even the life and death of
an almost worthless sparrow. Jesus’ point being, since God exercises
His sovereignty in regard to sparrows, most certainly He will exercise it in regard to
His children.
Matthew 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the
ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not,
therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
While it is true God’s love for us does not protect us from pain and sorrow, it is also
true that all occasions of pain and sorrow are under the absolute control of God. Since
God controls the life of the sparrow, it is reasonable to acknowledge His control over the
circumstances that affect us. God does not walk away and leave us to the mercy of uncontrolled
random or chance events. For someone to say, “God had no part in accidents, illness or
tragedy,” is to say God was apparently looking the other way, when this event occurred. Do we
really believe our God, the sustainer and creator of all that exists, can be taken as it were by
surprise, caught off guard?
Many people are unwilling to accept the fact that God is in control because they don’t
understand what He is doing and choose to substitute the “doctrine of chance” for
the doctrine of divine providence. Though we often do not understand Gods ways
when trying to reconcile tragedy, His sovereignty remains nevertheless at work in all
our lives. God’s sovereignty does not begin at death, His sovereign direction in
our lives even precedes our births from the womb.
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of
them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.
Galatians 1:15 a But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb…
God rules on earth as He does in Heaven. He permits for reasons known only to Him, people to
act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits then to act contrary to
His sovereign will. Apparent accidents or malevolent acts against us have still been allowed by
our God, they have come through His permissive will into our lives and as we submit ourselves
and situations to Him, He will work through them conforming us into the image of His Son. Our
response to life trials and tragedies is how we glorify God or don’t glorify Him. There is no life
circumstance that He is unable to provide His strength to overcome as we seek Him and thereby
use that very circumstance through our response for His glory.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.
Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that
will stand.
Proverbs 21:30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.
Lamentations 3:37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
One of the dilemmas we often have with the sovereignty of God is that it frequently does not
“appear” that God is in control of the circumstances of our lives. However, God does as He
pleases, and works out every event to bring about the accomplishment of His will.
Isaiah 14:27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched
out, and who will turn it back?
Isaiah 43:13 Even from eternity I am He, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act
and who can reverse it?
Isaiah 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'
It is difficult for us to appreciate the reality of God sovereignly doing as He pleases in
our lives, because we often do not “see” God doing anything. Instead we see with our finite eyes
events seemingly randomly occurring, but we fail to see God at work.
In every event of our lives God is in control accomplishing what as He pleases
– not apart from these events, or in spite of them, but through them. Just as
Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, yet Joseph recognized it was God that was
acting through his brothers actions for His purposes to be accomplished.
Genesis 45:8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to
Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about
that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Our lives are cluttered with the phrase “if only,” “if only I had done this,” or “if only that had not
happened.” But God has no “if only.” There are no contingencies with God, no unforeseen
events. God never makes a mistake, God has no regrets. We can trust God because He is
trustworthy.
Psalm 18:30 This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all
those who take refuge in him
The Bible teaches that God is sovereign over both the “good” and the “bad.”
Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider-- God
has made the one as well as the other So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.
Isaiah45:7 I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, and I am the
LORD, who does all these things.
These passages clearly state what is taught in principle throughout the rest of the
Bible. God controls both the good and the bad. God has not looked the other way or
been caught by surprise when adversity strives. He is in control of that adversity,
directing it for His glory and our good. We need to discipline our minds to trust God, through
knowing who our God is as He has revealed Himself through His Word. Trusting God is not a
matter of our feelings but of our will. We may not “feel” like trusting God when adversity strikes
but we can choose to do so, even when we don’t “feel” like it. That act of our will to trust must be
grounded on faith and conviction based on the truth of His Word. God carries out His own
purposes without ever being thwarted. We must cling to this truth in the midst of hard times and
tragedy. God’s honor is to take precedence over our feelings, and we honor God by choosing to
trust Him even when we don’t understand what He is doing or why He has allowed this sorrow in
our life. Granted it is much easier to trust in the sovereignty of God when things are going well,
and far more difficult to trust when adversities strike. God has a purpose for the grief He brings or
allows to come into our lives. God never wastes our pain. He always uses it to accomplish His
purposes, and for His glory and our good. We can trust Him when our hearts are broken.
Trusting God in the midst of heartache and pain will help us accept the suffering as coming from
His hand, thereby we can be confident that He is lovingly accomplishing His will in our lives
conforming us to the image of His Son. God's purposes are often beyond our understanding, and
the Lord simply does not explain or seek to justify His ways to humankind, nor should He, for He
is the sovereign Lord over all creation. It is not necessarily comfort or happiness that is the good
that God works in our lives, but conformity to the likeness of His Son.
Romans 8:28-29 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who
love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He
also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn
among many brethren;
Habakkuk 3:17-19 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce
of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd
in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. GOD, the
Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.
When we are in the throes of heartache we can be tempted to doubt God’s love. The irrefutable
proof of God’s love for us is at the cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God loved us when we were totally unworthy, and there is nothing whatsoever within us that
would call forth His love. We shouldn’t allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds rather we
must search for ways to let the truth of God rule our minds and our emotions to be subservient to
truth. This doesn’t mean we should seek to bury our emotional pain in a stoic-like attitude, there
is a time and season for tears, but we must actively resist allowing that pain to cause us to sin and
lapse into erroneous thoughts about God. God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed
over and over in Scripture. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’
s love, nor does faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to
us through our union with His beloved Son.
1 John 4:9-10 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son
into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but
that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
There is no doubt that God is in control, there are no accidents with God. God is still on His
throne working all things according to His plan. There is nothing that escapes His sight and
nothing that occurs outside His sovereign will.
Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Watching the evil and the good.
Jeremiah 23:23-24 "Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "And not a God far off? "Can a
man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?" declares the LORD. "Do I not fill the
heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.
Psalm 93:1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The LORD has clothed and girded
Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
Be of good courage Christian, steadfastly look to your Father in Heaven when going through the
valleys, He is always with you. If you need to repent of your sinful attitudes towards God do so
immediately, don’t wait, and why prolong your personal agony? Read His word, cling to His
promises, seek out the counsel of mature steadfast Christians to encourage and lift you up during
this season of your life. Keep seeking your Heavenly Father for we will live eternally with Him,
and He will wipe away every tear. We will worship with all the saints and angels in fullness of joy
for all eternity.
Psalm 16:11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In
Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Revelation 19:6 Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of
many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our
God, the Almighty, reigns.
Revelation 21:4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any
death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."
Please feel free to email me with any questions or prayers, or support you might need at this time
in your life.
Send email to Debra at letters@gloryworks.com
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